diff --git a/ppremake/configure.in b/ppremake/configure.in
index f578f0ad69..a71e199bc4 100644
--- a/ppremake/configure.in
+++ b/ppremake/configure.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 AC_INIT(ppremake.cxx)
-AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ppremake, 0.60)
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE(ppremake, 0.61)
 AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)
 
 AC_PREFIX_DEFAULT(/usr/local/panda)
diff --git a/ppremake/ppScope.cxx b/ppremake/ppScope.cxx
index 77f06c8c61..e0988b9fa9 100644
--- a/ppremake/ppScope.cxx
+++ b/ppremake/ppScope.cxx
@@ -1820,7 +1820,7 @@ expand_wordlist(const string &params) {
   tokenize_whitespace(expand_string(tokens[2]), words);
 
   start = max(start, 1);
-  end = min(end, (int)words.size());
+  end = min(end, (int)words.size() + 1);
 
   if (end < start) {
     return string();