diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6cc978537..77109f9e1 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ endif
 NIM_PARAMS := $(NIM_PARAMS) -d:discv5_protocol_id:d5waku
 
 # git version for JSON RPC call
-GIT_VERSION := "$(shell git describe --abbrev=6 --always --tags)"
+GIT_VERSION ?= $(shell git describe --abbrev=6 --always --tags)
 NIM_PARAMS := $(NIM_PARAMS) -d:git_version:\"$(GIT_VERSION)\"
 
 deps: | deps-common nat-libs waku.nims rlnlib rlnzerokitlib
diff --git a/vendor/nim-libbacktrace/vendor/libbacktrace-upstream/libtool b/vendor/nim-libbacktrace/vendor/libbacktrace-upstream/libtool
index 3296a72c6..4756081f0 100755
--- a/vendor/nim-libbacktrace/vendor/libbacktrace-upstream/libtool
+++ b/vendor/nim-libbacktrace/vendor/libbacktrace-upstream/libtool
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # libtool - Provide generalized library-building support services.
 # Generated automatically by config.status (libbacktrace) version-unused
-# Libtool was configured on host fv-az460-75:
+# Libtool was configured on host fv-az186-323:
 # NOTE: Changes made to this file will be lost: look at ltmain.sh.
 #
 #   Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,