diff --git a/.build/.gitignore b/.build/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 936e7fe13..000000000
--- a/.build/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-build/
-root/
diff --git a/.build/Makefile b/.build/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 6e9533967..000000000
--- a/.build/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-.SUFFIXES:
-
-include ../Makefile.INCLUDE
-
-all:
-
-clean:
-	$(MAKE) -C root clean
diff --git a/.build/cache/.gitignore b/.build/cache/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index bb541719c..000000000
--- a/.build/cache/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-*.gz
-*.bz2
diff --git a/.build/root/Makefile b/.build/root/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index d76a09106..000000000
--- a/.build/root/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2013 Prometheus Team
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-.SUFFIXES:
-
-include ../../Makefile.INCLUDE
-
-all:
-
-clean:
-	rm -rf *
-	git checkout .
diff --git a/.build/root/bin/.gitignore b/.build/root/bin/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index f59ec20aa..000000000
--- a/.build/root/bin/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.build/root/include/.gitignore b/.build/root/include/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index f59ec20aa..000000000
--- a/.build/root/include/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.build/root/lib/.gitignore b/.build/root/lib/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index f59ec20aa..000000000
--- a/.build/root/lib/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.build/root/share/.gitignore b/.build/root/share/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 72e8ffc0d..000000000
--- a/.build/root/share/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-*
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 755efc557..207a4c604 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ core
 /promtool
 benchmark.txt
 /data
+/.build
 
 .#*
 command-line-arguments.test
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7ee0460e5..54b8aa320 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 2013 The Prometheus Authors
+# Copyright 2015 The Prometheus Authors
 # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 # You may obtain a copy of the License at
@@ -11,86 +11,29 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-TEST_ARTIFACTS = prometheus prometheus.race search_index
+GO   := GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1 go
+pkgs  = $(shell $(GO) list ./... | grep -v /vendor/)
 
-include Makefile.INCLUDE
+all: format build test
 
-all: binary test
+test:
+	@echo ">> running tests"
+	@$(GO) test -short $(pkgs)
 
-$(GOCC): $(BUILD_PATH)/cache/$(GOPKG)
-	tar -C $(BUILD_PATH)/root -xzf $<
-	touch $@
+format:
+	@echo ">> formatting code"
+	@$(GO) fmt $(pkgs)
 
-advice: $(GOCC)
-	$(GO) vet ./...
+vet:
+	@echo ">> vetting code"
+	@$(GO) vet $(pkgs)
 
-binary: build
-
-build: dependencies $(GOPATH)
-	$(GO) build -o prometheus $(BUILDFLAGS) github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/prometheus
-	$(GO) build -o promtool $(BUILDFLAGS) github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/promtool
+build: 
+	@echo ">> building binaries"
+	@./scripts/build.sh
 
 docker:
-	docker build -t prometheus:$(REV) .
+	@docker build -t prometheus:$(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD) .
 
-tarball: $(ARCHIVE)
 
-$(GOPATH):
-	mkdir -p $(GOPATH)
-	cp -a $(MAKEFILE_DIR)/vendor/ $(GOPATH)/src
-
-$(ARCHIVE): build
-	mkdir -p $(ARCHIVEDIR)
-	cp -a prometheus promtool consoles console_libraries $(ARCHIVEDIR)
-	tar -czf $(ARCHIVE) $(ARCHIVEDIR)
-	rm -rf $(ARCHIVEDIR)
-
-release: REMOTE     ?= $(error "can't upload, REMOTE not set")
-release: REMOTE_DIR ?= $(error "can't upload, REMOTE_DIR not set")
-release: $(ARCHIVE)
-	scp $< $(REMOTE):$(REMOTE_DIR)/
-
-tag:
-	git tag $(VERSION)
-	git push --tags
-
-$(BUILD_PATH)/cache/$(GOPKG):
-	$(CURL) -o $@ -L $(GOURL)/$(GOPKG)
-
-benchmark: dependencies
-	$(GO) test $(GO_TEST_FLAGS) -test.run='NONE' -test.bench='.*' -test.benchmem ./... | tee benchmark.txt
-
-clean:
-	$(MAKE) -C $(BUILD_PATH) clean
-	rm -rf $(TEST_ARTIFACTS)
-	-rm $(ARCHIVE)
-	-find . -type f -name '*~' -exec rm '{}' ';'
-	-find . -type f -name '*#' -exec rm '{}' ';'
-	-find . -type f -name '.#*' -exec rm '{}' ';'
-
-$(SELFLINK): $(GOPATH)
-	mkdir -p `dirname $@`
-	ln -s $(MAKEFILE_DIR) $@
-
-dependencies: $(GOCC) | $(SELFLINK)
-
-documentation: search_index
-	godoc -http=:6060 -index -index_files='search_index'
-
-format: dependencies
-	find . -iname '*.go' | egrep -v "^\./(\.build|vendor)/" | xargs -n1 $(GOFMT) -w -s=true
-
-race_condition_binary: build
-	$(GO) build -race -o prometheus.race $(BUILDFLAGS) github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/prometheus
-	$(GO) build -race -o promtool.race $(BUILDFLAGS) github.com/prometheus/prometheus/cmd/promtool
-
-search_index:
-	godoc -index -write_index -index_files='search_index'
-
-test: dependencies
-	$(GO) test $(GO_TEST_FLAGS) ./...
-
-web: dependencies
-	$(MAKE) -C web
-
-.PHONY: advice binary build clean dependencies documentation format race_condition_binary race_condition_run release run search_index tag tarball test
+.PHONY: format build test vet docker
diff --git a/Makefile.INCLUDE b/Makefile.INCLUDE
deleted file mode 100644
index e624ec629..000000000
--- a/Makefile.INCLUDE
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
-# -*- Mode: makefile -*-
-
-# Copyright 2013 The Prometheus Authors
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-.SUFFIXES:
-
-current_dir := $(patsubst %/,%, $(dir $(abspath $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST)))))
-
-VERSION=$(shell cat $(current_dir)/version/VERSION)
-
-OS=$(shell uname)
-ARCH=$(shell uname -m)
-
-# The release engineers apparently need to key their binary artifacts to the
-# Mac OS X release family.
-MAC_OS_X_VERSION ?= 10.8
-
-MAKEFILE_DIR ?= $(realpath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))
-
-BUILD_PATH = $(MAKEFILE_DIR)/.build
-
-GO_VERSION := 1.5.1
-GOOS ?= $(subst Darwin,darwin,$(subst Linux,linux,$(subst FreeBSD,freebsd,$(OS))))
-
-# Never honor GOBIN, should it be set at all.
-unexport GOBIN
-
-GOARCH ?= $(subst x86_64,amd64,$(patsubst i%86,386,$(ARCH)))
-GOPKG  ?= go$(GO_VERSION).$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)$(RELEASE_SUFFIX).tar.gz
-GOURL  ?= https://golang.org/dl
-GOROOT  = $(BUILD_PATH)/root/go
-GOPATH  = $(BUILD_PATH)/root/gopath
-GOCC    = $(GOROOT)/bin/go
-TMPDIR  = /tmp
-GOENV   = TMPDIR=$(TMPDIR) GOROOT=$(GOROOT) GOPATH=$(GOPATH)
-GO      = $(GOENV) $(GOCC)
-GOFMT   = $(GOROOT)/bin/gofmt
-
-UNAME    := $(shell uname)
-REPO_PATH = github.com/prometheus/prometheus
-SELFLINK  = $(GOPATH)/src/$(REPO_PATH)
-
-export PREFIX=$(BUILD_PATH)/root
-
-export PATH := $(GOPATH)/bin:$(GOROOT)/bin:$(PATH)
-
-export GO_TEST_FLAGS ?= -short
-
-REV        := $(shell git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null  || echo 'unknown')
-BRANCH     := $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null  || echo 'unknown')
-HOSTNAME   := $(shell hostname -f)
-BUILD_DATE := $(shell date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S)
-BUILDFLAGS := -ldflags \
-  " -X $(REPO_PATH)/version.Version=$(VERSION)\
-		-X $(REPO_PATH)/version.Revision=$(REV)\
-		-X $(REPO_PATH)/version.Branch=$(BRANCH)\
-		-X $(REPO_PATH)/version.BuildUser=$(USER)@$(HOSTNAME)\
-		-X $(REPO_PATH)/version.BuildDate=$(BUILD_DATE)\
-		-X $(REPO_PATH)/version.GoVersion=$(GO_VERSION)"
-CURL := curl
-
-ARCHIVEDIR := prometheus-$(VERSION).$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)
-ARCHIVE := $(ARCHIVEDIR).tar.gz
diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..e617b80ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Copyright 2015 The Prometheus Authors
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+set -e
+
+repo_path="github.com/prometheus/prometheus"
+
+version=$( cat version/VERSION )
+revision=$( git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo 'unknown' )
+branch=$( git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo 'unknown' )
+host=$( hostname -f )
+build_date=$( date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S )
+
+if [ "$(go env GOOS)" = "windows" ]; then
+	ext=".exe"
+fi
+
+ldflags="
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.Version=${version}
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.Revision=${revision}
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.Branch=${branch}
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.BuildUser=${USER}@${host}
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.BuildDate=${build_date}
+  -X ${repo_path}/version.GoVersion=${go_version}"
+
+export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT="1"
+
+echo " >   prometheus"
+go build -ldflags "${ldflags}" -o prometheus${ext} ${repo_path}/cmd/prometheus
+
+echo " >   promtool"
+go build -ldflags "${ldflags}" -o promtool${ext} ${repo_path}/cmd/promtool
+
+exit 0