diff --git a/performance-metrics/Cargo.toml b/performance-metrics/Cargo.toml
index a0afab75d..3517b6473 100644
--- a/performance-metrics/Cargo.toml
+++ b/performance-metrics/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "performance-metrics"
 version = "0.1.0"
 authors = ["The Cloud Hypervisor Authors"]
 edition = "2021"
-build = "build.rs"
+build = "../build.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
 argh = "0.1.9"
diff --git a/performance-metrics/build.rs b/performance-metrics/build.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 7dcd810af..000000000
--- a/performance-metrics/build.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright © 2020 Intel Corporation
-//
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-//
-
-use std::process::Command;
-
-fn main() {
-    let mut git_human_readable = "v".to_owned() + env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
-
-    if let Ok(git_out) = Command::new("git").args(["describe", "--dirty"]).output() {
-        if git_out.status.success() {
-            if let Ok(git_out_str) = String::from_utf8(git_out.stdout) {
-                git_human_readable = git_out_str;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    // This println!() has a special behavior, as it will set the environment
-    // variable GIT_HUMAN_READABLE, so that it can be reused from the binary.
-    // Particularly, this is used from the main.rs to display the exact
-    // version information.
-    println!("cargo:rustc-env=GIT_HUMAN_READABLE={git_human_readable}");
-}
diff --git a/performance-metrics/src/main.rs b/performance-metrics/src/main.rs
index d27945d9c..4ea3fe694 100644
--- a/performance-metrics/src/main.rs
+++ b/performance-metrics/src/main.rs
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ fn main() {
     let opts: Options = argh::from_env();
 
     if opts.version {
-        println!("{} {}", env!("CARGO_BIN_NAME"), env!("GIT_HUMAN_READABLE"));
+        println!("{} {}", env!("CARGO_BIN_NAME"), env!("BUILT_VERSION"));
         return;
     }