Index: gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in
===================================================================
--- gdb.orig/gdbserver/Makefile.in	2006-01-31 14:44:32.000000000 +0530
+++ gdb/gdbserver/Makefile.in	2006-01-31 14:57:21.000000000 +0530
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@
 	$(srcdir)/linux-m68k-low.c $(srcdir)/linux-mips-low.c \
 	$(srcdir)/linux-ppc-low.c $(srcdir)/linux-ppc64-low.c \
 	$(srcdir)/linux-s390-low.c \
-	$(srcdir)/linux-sh-low.c $(srcdir)/linux-x86-64-low.c
+	$(srcdir)/linux-sh-low.c $(srcdir)/linux-x86-64-low.c \
+        $(srcdir)/version.c
 
 DEPFILES = @GDBSERVER_DEPFILES@
 
@@ -136,6 +137,7 @@
 OBS = inferiors.o regcache.o remote-utils.o server.o signals.o target.o \
 	utils.o \
 	mem-break.o \
+	version.o \
 	$(DEPFILES)
 GDBSERVER_LIBS = @GDBSERVER_LIBS@
 
@@ -204,6 +206,7 @@
 	rm -f reg-arm.c reg-i386.c reg-ia64.c reg-m32r.c reg-m68k.c reg-mips.c
 	rm -f reg-ppc.c reg-sh.c reg-x86-64.c reg-i386-linux.c
 	rm -f reg-cris.c reg-crisv32.c
+	rm -f version.c 
 
 maintainer-clean realclean distclean: clean
 	rm -f nm.h tm.h xm.h config.status config.h stamp-h config.log
@@ -224,7 +227,8 @@
 force:
 
 version.c: Makefile
-	echo 'char *version = "$(VERSION)";' >version.c
+	echo '#include "version.h"' >version.c
+	echo 'const char version[] = "$(VERSION)";' >>version.c
 
 # GNU Make has an annoying habit of putting *all* the Makefile variables
 # into the environment, unless you include this target as a circumvention.
@@ -243,7 +247,9 @@
 regcache_h = $(srcdir)/regcache.h
 server_h = $(srcdir)/server.h $(regcache_h) config.h $(srcdir)/target.h \
 		$(srcdir)/mem-break.h
+version_h = $(srcdir)/version.h
 
+version.o: version.c $(server_h)
 inferiors.o: inferiors.c $(server_h)
 mem-break.o: mem-break.c $(server_h)
 proc-service.o: proc-service.c $(server_h) $(gdb_proc_service_h)
Index: gdb/gdbserver/version.h
===================================================================
--- gdb.orig/gdbserver/version.h	2006-01-31 11:29:08.772974888 +0530
+++ gdb/gdbserver/version.h	2006-01-31 15:10:21.293967032 +0530
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#ifndef VERSION_H
+#define VERSION_H
+
+/* Version number of gdbserver, as a string.  */
+extern const char version[];
+
+#endif /* #ifndef VERSION_H */
+
Index: gdb/gdbserver/server.c
===================================================================
--- gdb.orig/gdbserver/server.c	2006-01-31 14:52:10.000000000 +0530
+++ gdb/gdbserver/server.c	2006-01-31 14:59:11.098852176 +0530
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
    Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.  */
 
 #include "server.h"
+#include "version.h"
 
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <signal.h>
@@ -358,6 +359,8 @@
 
   initialize_low ();
 
+  fprintf(stderr, "GNU %s\n",version);
+
   own_buf = malloc (PBUFSIZ);
   mem_buf = malloc (PBUFSIZ);