2.40 branch now open for updates

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Joseph,

> It looks like version numbers aren't consistently set on the branch at
> present; building from it I get errors of the form:
> 
> In file included from /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many12/src/binutils/gprof/gprof.h:41,
>                   from /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many12/src/binutils/gprof/basic_blocks.c:24:
> ./gconfig.h:104: error: "VERSION" redefined [-Werror]
>    104 | #define VERSION "2.40.00"
>        |
> In file included from /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many12/src/binutils/gprof/../bfd/sysdep.h:29,
>                   from /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many12/src/binutils/gprof/gprof.h:33,
>                   from /scratch/jmyers/glibc/many12/src/binutils/gprof/basic_blocks.c:24:
> ../bfd/config.h:327: note: this is the location of the previous definition
>    327 | #define VERSION "2.40"
> 

*sigh* Yes you are right.  I had a snafu when I was creating the release
tarballs and accidentally set the version number to 2.40.00 instead of 2.40.
I thought that I had fixed all of the files before making the release, but
obviously I missed a few.  This should now be fixed.

Cheers
   Nick