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

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1 file changed, 111 insertions(+), 62 deletions(-)

 # ARM specific configuration file

 config ARCH_arm

     select ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN

     select ARCH_DEFAULT_LE

     select ARCH_SUPPORT_ARCH

     select ARCH_SUPPORT_CPU

     select ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE

     select ARCH_SUPPORT_FPU

     help

       The ARM architecture, as defined by:

         http://www.arm.com/

 config ARCH_ARM_EABI

     bool

     prompt "Use EABI"

     default n

     help

       Set up the toolchain so that it generates EABI-compliant binaries.

 config ARCH_ARM_ABI_OK

     bool

     default y

     depends on ! ARCH_ARM_EABI

     select ARCH_SUPPORT_ABI