Break unnecessary universal dependencies on version.c

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> 1. configure must be re-run when version.c changes.  This is because
>    the version number (not just the snapshot date) *might* have
>    changed, and if so the change must propagate to a number of
>    @-substitutions.  It's currently not possible to handle this
>    entirely within config.status, although it really should be; I'll
>    bring that up with the autoconf people.

Of course, some substitutions do depend on the snapshot date - for
example, this is embedded in gccbug (whose dependencies, however, fail to
allow for this).

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk