1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/ver_linux b/scripts/ver_linux
index 31c0e4d09ffc..1fea7494a1b1 100755
--- a/scripts/ver_linux
+++ b/scripts/ver_linux
@@ -25,7 +25,12 @@ awk '/GNU Make/{
 	substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
 }'
 
-echo "binutils               $(ld -v | egrep -o '[0-9]+\.[0-9\.]+')"
+ld -v 2>&1 |
+awk '/[0-9]+([.]?[0-9]+)+/ && !/not found$/{
+	match($0, /[0-9]+([.]?[0-9]+)+/)
+	printf("Binutils\t\t%s\n",
+	substr($0,RSTART,RLENGTH))
+}'
 
 echo -n "util-linux             "
 fdformat --version | awk '{print $NF}' | sed -e s/^util-linux-// -e s/\)$//