diff --git a/cmake/templates/man2html.sh.in b/cmake/templates/man2html.sh.in
index b872ef559..9a3fcd06a 100755
--- a/cmake/templates/man2html.sh.in
+++ b/cmake/templates/man2html.sh.in
@@ -1,35 +1,35 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 
 if ! command -v pandoc > /dev/null
 then
   echo "pandoc is required for converting the man pages, please install it"
   exit 1
 fi
 
 if ! pandoc --list-input-formats | grep -x man > /dev/null
 then
   echo "pandoc >= 2.4 is required for converting the man pages, please upgrade"
   exit 2
 fi
 
 mkdir -p "@OUTPUT_DIR@"
 
 MAN_FILES="$(find "@INPUT_DIR@" -name '*.1' -type f)"
 
 for MAN_FILE in ${MAN_FILES}
 do
   BINARY_NAME="$(basename "${MAN_FILE}" | cut -d'.' -f1)"
   HTML_FILE="@OUTPUT_DIR@/${BINARY_NAME}.html"
 
   echo "---" > "${HTML_FILE}"
   echo "category: man" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
   echo "group: @PACKAGE_NAME@ " >> "${HTML_FILE}"
   echo "name: ${BINARY_NAME}" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
-  echo "version: @PROJECT_VERSION@" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
+  echo "version: @CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION@" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
   echo "---" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
   echo "<!-- @generated -->" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
 
   pandoc --from=man --to=html "${MAN_FILE}" >> "${HTML_FILE}"
 done