Further enhance the check for needed tools:
- update the tool_pattern to use ' || ' as a pattern separator
- which allows using | in regexp
- add checks for cut and xargs
- manually check for grep and sed because they are needed when checking for tools
- print why a test failed, with each tested tool and regexp
- move tools checks before options parsing
- apply conttibutions before computing the version string
- inform user to run make && make install

/trunk/configure | 173 111 62 0 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
1 file changed, 111 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

# MIPS specific config options

config ARCH_mips

    select ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN

    select ARCH_DEFAULT_BE

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ARCH

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI

    select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE

    help

      The MIPS architecture, as defined by:

        http://www.mips.com/