Obtaining systemtap version information from stap

[William Cohen]

Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> wcohen wrote:
> 
> 
>>[...] It would be good if there was some way to query "stap" for the
>>version being used.
> 
> 
> The first line of "stap -h" includes a version string.  Is that the
> sort of thing you had in mind?  You could add a "-V" version-only
> printing command if you like.
> 
> - FChE

I can extract it from "-h". That should be sufficient. However, I 
noticed that "-h" not recognized:

$ stap -h
stap: invalid option -- h
SystemTap translator/driver (version 0.2.2 built 2005-08-04)
Copyright (C) 2005 Red Hat, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.

...

The "-V" which just prints out the version information would be nice.

-Will