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(-)

diff -dur strace-4.5.15.orig/signal.c strace-4.5.15/signal.c

--- strace-4.5.15.orig/signal.c	2007-01-11 23:08:38.000000000 +0100

+++ strace-4.5.15/signal.c	2007-07-14 19:24:43.000000000 +0200

@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@

 	  	tcp->u_rval = tcp->u_error = 0;

 		if(tcp->u_arg[0] == 0)

 		  	return 0;

-		tcp->auxstr = sprintsigmask("mask now ", tcp->u_arg[1]);

+		tcp->auxstr = sprintsigmask("mask now ", tcp->u_arg[1], 0);

 		return RVAL_NONE | RVAL_STR;

 	}

 	return 0;