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(-)

 --- glibc-2.7/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h	2007-08-14 06:21:09.000000000 +0300

 +++ glibc-2.7/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h.new	2008-07-23 07:05:20.000000000 +0300

 @@ -449,8 +449,7 @@

     and on Alpha just after 2.6.22-rc1.  */

  #if __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020611 \

      && ((!defined __sh__ && !defined __alpha__) \

 -	|| (__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020613 && defined __sh__) \

 -	|| (__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020617 && defined __alpha__))

 +	|| (__LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION >= 0x020613 && defined __sh__))

  # define __ASSUME_ATFCTS	1

  #endif