Print the major components and their version when calling "make help".

samples/Makefile

@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 # Build a list of all available samples
 
-SAMPLES = $(patsubst $(CT_TOP_DIR)/samples/%,%,$(filter-out %Makefile,$(wildcard $(CT_TOP_DIR)/samples/*)))
+CT_SAMPLES = $(patsubst $(CT_TOP_DIR)/samples/%/crosstool.config,%,$(filter-out %Makefile,$(wildcard $(CT_TOP_DIR)/samples/*/crosstool.config)))
 .PHONY: $(SAMPLES)
-$(SAMPLES):
+$(CT_SAMPLES):
 	@cp "$(CT_TOP_DIR)/samples/$(@)/crosstool.config" "$(CT_TOP_DIR)/.config"
 	@$(MAKE) oldconfig
 
 help::
 	@echo  'Preconfigured targets:'
-	@for s in $(SAMPLES); do   \
-	    echo  "  $${s}"; \
-	 done
+	@$(CT_TOP_DIR)/scripts/showSamples.sh $(CT_SAMPLES)
 	@echo  ''
 
 saveconfig:

scripts/showSamples.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Parses all samples on the command line, and for each of them, prints
+# the versions of the main tools
+
+# GREP_OPTIONS screws things up.
+export GREP_OPTIONS=
+
+# Dump a single sample
+dump_single_sample() {
+    local width="$1"
+    local sample="$2"
+    . "${CT_TOP_DIR}/samples/${sample}/crosstool.config"
+    # Build the components string
+    local str="${CT_KERNEL}-${CT_KERNEL_VERSION}"
+    str="${str} binutils-${CT_BINUTILS_VERSION}"
+    str="${str} ${CT_CC}-${CT_CC_VERSION}"
+    str="${str} ${CT_LIBC}-${CT_LIBC_VERSION}"
+    printf "  %-*s - %s\n" ${width} "${sample}" "${str}"
+}
+
+# Get largest sample width
+width=0
+for sample in "${@}"; do
+    [ ${#sample} -gt ${width} ] && width=${#sample}
+done
+
+for sample in "${@}"; do
+    ( dump_single_sample ${width} "${sample}" )
+done