version number define in the header file
# 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",$p[0+$_]);}';
+perl='$a=<STDIN>;@p=split("[\\.-]",$a);for(0..2){printf STDOUT ("%02x",$p[0+$_]);}';
numeric=`echo $libversion | perl -e "$perl"`