[Bug debugedit/34310] New: Don't error out if tools are not found at configure time

[ross at burtonini dot com]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34310

            Bug ID: 34310
           Summary: Don't error out if tools are not found at configure
                    time
           Product: debugedit
           Version: unspecified
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: debugedit
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: ross at burtonini dot com
                CC: debugedit at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Since
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=debugedit.git;a=commitdiff;h=83963a11a07035445d93be9cf1feaf2d8865f052
the configure script will error out if cpio/eu-strip/xz/gdb-add-index are not
present at build time.

Whilst this is very useful for someone who is building debugedit to then
immediately run it, it's pointless when building distribution packages where
those tools are not needed to _compile_ the tools and it's the distribution's
job to make sure they're available at runtime.

Distribution builds are typically done in minimal environments, so having to
depend on more tools than needed simply to satisfy a pointless check makes
builds slower, dependency cycles longer, and are generally more annoying.

I propose the errors are changed to warnings: a user running configure manually
to build and run debugedit from sources will still see the warnings, but
distribution builds won't fail if the tools are not present.

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