diff --git a/srcpkgs/runc/template b/srcpkgs/runc/template
index 2072901d618..b72dc5d3eef 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/runc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/runc/template
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ revision=1
 build_style=go
 go_import_path=github.com/opencontainers/runc
 go_build_tags="seccomp apparmor"
+go_ldflags="-X main.version=${version}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config go-md2man"
 makedepends="libseccomp-devel"
 short_desc="CLI tool for spawning and running OCI containers"