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(-)

 #!/bin/sh

 # Needed for systems without gettext

 $* -xc -o /dev/null - > /dev/null 2>&1 << EOF

 #include <libintl.h>

 int main()

 {

 	gettext("");

 	return 0;

 }

 EOF

 if [ ! "$?" -eq "0"  ]; then

 	echo -DKBUILD_NO_NLS;

 fi