diff --git a/linux/generate_date_info.sh b/linux/generate_date_info.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..32edf509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linux/generate_date_info.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+builddate=`date --utc --date="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +%s)}" +%Y-%m-%d`
+echo "Storing variables in file"
+echo "Date: $builddate"
+# Only append if it does not exist yet in the file
+already_in_there=$(grep "CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_TIME_H" ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h 2>/dev/null)
+if [ ! -z "$already_in_there" ]; then
+	echo "#ifndef CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_TIME_H" > ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#define CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_TIME_H" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#define COMPILE_DATE \"$builddate\"" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#endif" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+endif
+echo "Done."
diff --git a/linux/generate_version_info.sh b/linux/generate_version_info.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..0280b3e5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linux/generate_version_info.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+echo "Obtaining Git commit"
+commit=(`git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null`)
+if [ -z "$commit" ]; then
+	echo "Git command not present, trying folder approach"
+	if [ -d "../.git" ]; then 
+		echo "Git folder found, using HEAD file"
+		head="`cat ../.git/HEAD`"
+		ref_pos=(`expr match "$head" 'ref: '`)
+		if [ $ref_pos -eq 5 ]; then	
+			echo "HEAD file contains a ref, following"
+			commit=(`cat "../.git/${head:5}"`)
+			echo "Extracted commit: $commit"
+		else
+			echo "HEAD contains a commit, using it"
+			commit="$head"
+			echo "Extracted commit: $commit"	
+		fi 
+	fi
+fi
+if [ -z "$commit" ]; then
+	commit="Unknown"
+fi
+echo "Storing variables in file"
+echo "Commit: $commit"
+# Only append if it does not exist yet in the file
+already_in_there=$(grep "CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_COMMIT_H" ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h 2>/dev/null)
+if [ ! -z "$already_in_there" ]; then
+	echo "#ifndef CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_COMMIT_H" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#define CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_COMMIT_H" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#define GIT_COMMIT \"$commit\"" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+	echo "#endif" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
+endif
+echo "Done."
diff --git a/linux/pre-build.sh b/linux/pre-build.sh
index 19a3dd36..732ae401 100755
--- a/linux/pre-build.sh
+++ b/linux/pre-build.sh
@@ -1,34 +1,3 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
-echo "Obtaining Git commit"
-commit=(`git rev-parse HEAD 2>/dev/null`)
-if [ -z "$commit" ]; then
-	echo "Git command not present, trying folder approach"
-	if [ -d "../.git" ]; then 
-		echo "Git folder found, using HEAD file"
-		head="`cat ../.git/HEAD`"
-		ref_pos=(`expr match "$head" 'ref: '`)
-		if [ $ref_pos -eq 5 ]; then	
-			echo "HEAD file contains a ref, following"
-			commit=(`cat "../.git/${head:5}"`)
-			echo "Extracted commit: $commit"
-		else
-			echo "HEAD contains a commit, using it"
-			commit="$head"
-			echo "Extracted commit: $commit"	
-		fi 
-	fi
-fi
-if [ -z "$commit" ]; then
-	commit="Unknown"
-fi
-builddate=`date --utc --date="@${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH:-$(date +%s)}" +%Y-%m-%d`
-echo "Storing variables in file"
-echo "Commit: $commit"
-echo "Date: $builddate"
-echo "#ifndef CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_H" > ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
-echo "#define CCX_CCEXTRACTOR_COMPILE_REAL_H" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
-echo "#define GIT_COMMIT \"$commit\"" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
-echo "#define COMPILE_DATE \"$builddate\"" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
-echo "#endif" >> ../src/lib_ccx/compile_info_real.h
-echo "Stored all in compile_info_real.h"
-echo "Done."
+./generate_version_info.sh
+./generate_date_info.sh