diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index 0b67edc5bc6f..d154f0877fd8 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
 	{
 	gsub(".*)", "");
+	gsub(".*version ", "");
+	gsub("-.*", "");
 	split($1,a, ".");
 	print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
 	exit