BUILD=`git rev-parse HEAD` LDFLAGS=-ldflags "-X main.Version=${VERSION} -X main.Build=${BUILD}" # ... $(BINARY): go build ${LDFLAGS} -o {$BINARY} ./

BUILD=`git rev-parse HEAD` LDFLAGS=-ldflags "-X main.Version=${VERSION} -X main.Build=${BUILD}" # ... $(BINARY): go build ${LDFLAGS} -o {$BINARY} ./.. Please don't do that. This ties the build process to be run from inside the git repository, which starts to be a problem if you have any sane method of code deployment (building source packages). Think of something different. And yes, there is a typo in the build rules.