build: fix make issue

[bermuell]

Description

Closes: #XXXX

LATEST_RELEASE variable in makefile required to perform a git fetch to get required variable value.
This was executed for each make which is not necessary.
Fix is using 'lazy evaluation' to execute related commans only when variable is referenced.

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