From 0c2d589109a58c15baf78a6890ad7492ab8d7238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Wattenbarger <jwattenb@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:00:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Lazy init VERSION vars in Makefile (#14093)

---
 Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 33e03fb561..8fad5c12bc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ NPM_BIN ?= npm
 CHROMIUM_BIN=/tmp/chrome-linux/chrome
 GIT_BRANCH ?= $(shell git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
 MANAGEMENT_COMMAND ?= awx-manage
-VERSION := $(shell $(PYTHON) tools/scripts/scm_version.py)
+VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) tools/scripts/scm_version.py)
 
 # ansible-test requires semver compatable version, so we allow overrides to hack it
 COLLECTION_VERSION ?= $(shell $(PYTHON) tools/scripts/scm_version.py | cut -d . -f 1-3)