1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/maketgz b/maketgz
index 6ad429b5d..79982d0d3 100755
--- a/maketgz
+++ b/maketgz
@@ -7,15 +7,24 @@ read version
 
 libversion="$version"
 
+#
+# Now we have a section to get the major, minor and patch number from the
+# full version string. We create a single hexadecimal number from it '0xMMmmpp'
+#
+perl='$a=<STDIN>;@p=split("\\.",$a);for(0..2){printf STDOUT ("%02x",$p[0+$_]);}';
+
+numeric=`echo $libversion | perl -e "$perl"`
+
 echo "CURL version number?"
 read curlversion
 
 HEADER=include/curl/curl.h
 CHEADER=src/version.h
 
-
 # Replace version number in header file:
-sed 's/#define LIBCURL_VERSION.*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION "'$libversion'"/g' $HEADER >$HEADER.new
+sed -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION "'$libversion'"/g' \
+    -e 's/^#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM .*/#define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0x'$numeric'/g' \
+ $HEADER >$HEADER.new
 
 # Save old header file
 cp -p $HEADER $HEADER.old