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-4.2.1.orig/boehm-gc/include/gc.h gcc-4.2.1/boehm-gc/include/gc.h

 --- gcc-4.2.1.orig/boehm-gc/include/gc.h	2006-09-18 20:45:08.000000000 +0200

 +++ gcc-4.2.1/boehm-gc/include/gc.h	2007-08-03 20:33:00.000000000 +0200

 @@ -502,7 +502,7 @@

  #if defined(__linux__) || defined(__GLIBC__)

  # include <features.h>

  # if (__GLIBC__ == 2 && __GLIBC_MINOR__ >= 1 || __GLIBC__ > 2) \

 -     && !defined(__ia64__)

 +     && !defined(__ia64__) && !defined(__UCLIBC__)

  #   ifndef GC_HAVE_BUILTIN_BACKTRACE

  #     define GC_HAVE_BUILTIN_BACKTRACE

  #   endif