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/