configure: do not require hg when configuring in an hg clone

When configuring in an hg clone, we need hg to compute the version string.
It can happen that users do not have Mercurial (eg. if they got a snapshot
rather that they did a full clone). In this case, we can still run, of
course, so simply fill the version string with a sufficiently explicit
value, that does not require hg. The date is a good candidate.

# MIPS specific config options

config ARCH_mips

    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_32

    select ARCH_DEFAULT_32

    select ARCH_USE_MMU

    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN

    select ARCH_DEFAULT_BE

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ARCH

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE

    help

      The MIPS architecture, as defined by:

        http://www.mips.com/