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(-)

 # Bare metal config options

 config KERNEL_bare_metal

     select BARE_METAL

     help

       'Bare metal' refers to those programs that run without any kernel.

       You probably want to say 'y' here if you plan to use your compiler

       to build bootloaders. It is not yet suitable to build Linux kernels,

       though, because the APCI stuff relies on the target C library headers

       being available?!?!...