diff --git a/scripts/ld-version.sh b/scripts/ld-version.sh
index 198580d..f2be0ff 100755
--- a/scripts/ld-version.sh
+++ b/scripts/ld-version.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/awk -f
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 # extract linker version number from stdin and turn into single number
 	{
-	gsub(".*)", "");
+	gsub(".*\\)", "");
+	gsub(".*version ", "");
+	gsub("-.*", "");
 	split($1,a, ".");
-	print a[1]*10000000 + a[2]*100000 + a[3]*10000 + a[4]*100 + a[5];
+	print a[1]*100000000 + a[2]*1000000 + a[3]*10000;
 	exit
 	}