From 9f5ae819e250cc011d6c2475ba81ef9657a6b7c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabian Reinartz <fab.reinartz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 22:36:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use runtime.Version()

---
 scripts/build.sh | 2 --
 version/info.go  | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/build.sh b/scripts/build.sh
index edf56215e..a25dc9d8d 100755
--- a/scripts/build.sh
+++ b/scripts/build.sh
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ revision=$( git rev-parse --short HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo 'unknown' )
 branch=$( git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2> /dev/null || echo 'unknown' )
 host=$( hostname )
 build_date=$( TZ=UTC date +%Y%m%d-%H:%M:%S )
-go_version=$( go version | sed -e 's/^[^0-9.]*\([0-9.]*\).*/\1/' )
 
 if [ "$(go env GOOS)" = "windows" ]; then
 	ext=".exe"
@@ -34,7 +33,6 @@ ldflags="
   -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}
   ${EXTRA_LDFLAGS}"
 
 export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT="1"
diff --git a/version/info.go b/version/info.go
index 835fc5ce6..8e43b5726 100644
--- a/version/info.go
+++ b/version/info.go
@@ -13,7 +13,11 @@
 
 package version
 
-import "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+import (
+	"runtime"
+
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+)
 
 // Build information. Populated at build-time.
 var (
@@ -22,7 +26,7 @@ var (
 	Branch    string
 	BuildUser string
 	BuildDate string
-	GoVersion string
+	GoVersion = runtime.Version()
 )
 
 // Map provides the iterable version information.