From af92f206330ca320f51f2be31c18014528ed877e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Timothy Messier <tim.messier@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 17:27:47 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore: Use version/VERSION as single source of version number

This updates the version make target to use the version/VERSION file in
the same manner as the build system. This ensures that the VERSION file
is the single source of truth for the version number.
---
 Makefile | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index f2a060b9d..8f6af94a3 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -381,7 +381,10 @@ docker-build-dev: build
 .PHONY: version
 # This is used for release builds by .github/workflows/build.yml
 version:
-	@go run ./cmd/boundary version | awk '/Version Number:/ { print $$3 }'
+	@go run \
+		-ldflags "-X 'github.com/hashicorp/boundary/version.Version=$(shell cat version/VERSION)'" \
+		./cmd/boundary version \
+		| awk '/Version Number:/ { print $$3 }'
 
 EDITION?=
 .PHONY: edition