Native-code support for Mac OS X / Darwin

Huge, huge thanks and credit to Brian Alliet for finishing the port of
gcj-boehm-gc to Darwin, which made this all possible (xwt/gcc/gcc.patch).

In addition to Win32, Linux, and Java2, XWT now has a Darwin target,
which produces a native Darwin binary with statically linked
threadsafe X11 libraries (courtesy of fink).  Just check out CVS HEAD
and type 'make Darwin'.

Unfortunately because Apple uses a proprietary linker/assembler, you
can only build the Darwin target on a Darwin machine.

Two projects for anybody with spare time:

   1) Get the Darwin ld and as to compile under Linux.  Once this is
      finished, we can put prebuilt, signed Mac OS X binaries on
      dist.xwt.org.  You can find all the source you need at
      opendarwin.org, in the src/cctools CVS repo.  It's mostly a
      matter of putting the right headers in the right place.

   2) I'm about to check in skeleton code for a MacOSX target, which
      will use Carbon instead of X11.  It would be really cool if
      somebody could learn a bit of Carbon and then "fill in the
      blanks".  Cocoa is acceptable only if you can do it using only
      C++ and Java (NO OBJECTIVE C).  Once MacOSX works well, I'll
      merge it and Darwin into a single binary that autodetects which
      gui to use (Carbon if available; else X11).

  - a

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