diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
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index ab60bf6f9f5..00000000000
--- a/main/php_version.h
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@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-/* automatically generated by configure */
-/* edit configure.in.in to change version number */
-#define PHP_VERSION "4.0b2-dev"