crosstool-ng: patches/glibc/2.5/160-use_short_for

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(-)

     1 Original patch from H.J. Lu, as reported there:

     2 http://www.nabble.com/PATCH:-Use-short-for-fnstsw-td14775171.html

     4 fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax. The upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.

     5 The new assembler (binutils-2.18.50.0.4 and up) will disallow "fnstsw %eax".

     7 diff -dur glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c

     8 --- glibc-2.6.1.orig/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2004-03-05 11:14:48.000000000 +0100

     9 +++ glibc-2.6.1/sysdeps/i386/fpu/ftestexcept.c	2008-06-24 10:56:14.000000000 +0200

    10 @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@

    11  int

    12  fetestexcept (int excepts)

    13  {

    14 -  int temp;

    15 +  short temp;

    16    int xtemp = 0;

    18    /* Get current exceptions.  */

author	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
	Tue Dec 23 22:20:25 2008 +0000 (2008-12-23)
changeset 1106	2051ee3d1b75
parent 607	aaf7ae5cb11a
permissions	-rw-r--r--