diff --git a/storage/ndb/ndb_configure.m4 b/storage/ndb/ndb_configure.m4
index 533dba09feb..21e4627515f 100644
--- a/storage/ndb/ndb_configure.m4
+++ b/storage/ndb/ndb_configure.m4
@@ -2,10 +2,16 @@ dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 dnl Macro: MYSQL_CHECK_NDBCLUSTER
 dnl ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-NDB_VERSION_MAJOR=`echo $MYSQL_NUMERIC_VERSION | cut -d. -f1`
-NDB_VERSION_MINOR=`echo $MYSQL_NUMERIC_VERSION | cut -d. -f2`
-NDB_VERSION_BUILD=`echo $MYSQL_NUMERIC_VERSION | cut -d. -f3`
-NDB_VERSION_STATUS=`echo $VERSION | sed 's/^[[-.0-9]]*//'`
+# The version of NDB in this version of MySQL is currently fixed
+# and not supposed to be changed unless major changes happen in
+# storage/ndb directory.
+# NOTE! To avoid mixup with MySQL Cluster's version numbers
+# this version of NDB is set to 5.5.7 although it's basically
+# a copy of MySQL Cluster 6.2.18
+NDB_VERSION_MAJOR=5
+NDB_VERSION_MINOR=5
+NDB_VERSION_BUILD=7
+NDB_VERSION_STATUS=""
 TEST_NDBCLUSTER=""
 
 dnl for build ndb docs