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(-)

 # Kernel options

 menu "Operating System"

 # Config option used throughout the config and code to determine wether

 # we have a kernel or not (there might be different bare metal stuff...

 config BARE_METAL

     bool

     default n

 config KERNEL

     string

 config KERNEL_VERSION

     string

 source config.gen/kernel.in

 endmenu