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 -durN gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/mips/t-linux gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/mips/t-linux

 --- gcc-3.4.6.orig/gcc/config/mips/t-linux	1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100

 +++ gcc-3.4.6/gcc/config/mips/t-linux	2007-08-15 23:08:15.000000000 +0200

 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@

 +# Compile crtbegin/end with xgot so it works for both

 +# normal and large GOTs.

 +CRTSTUFF_T_CFLAGS = -mxgot