This one meets or exceeds the following requirements:

 - Version is checked/updated for every build action when in the git repo.
   Does not require the user to re- ./configure to get the correct version.

 - Version is not updated automatically when using exported tarball source.
   Avoids accidentally getting a wrong version from some other git repo in
   a parent directory of the source, and allows setting the correct version
   for distro package exports.

 - Automatic updating can be manually suppressed.
   For developers doing lots of change/rebuild cycles they don't plan to
   release, when they don't want a full rebuild triggered for every commit,
   and again for every change made immediately after a commit.
   The version will still always be updated if they do a `make dist`.

 - Does not require any manual updating of versions in the mainline git
   repo for each release aside from normal tagging.  The version is
   recorded in one file only, that is automatical...