added ./configure --enable-static-executables option

 * This adds the -all-static libtool option and can be used to
   link a static sciteco binary (or at least link in as few as possible
   dynamic libraries)
 * Esp. useful on MinGW to link in all dependant libraries (glib, libintl,
   libiconv, libpdcurses, ...) statically.
   A static .exe is much smaller than a dynamically linked plus all the
   DLLs and is easier to relocate.
 * This does not guarantee that ALL libraries are linked in dynamically.
   E.g. on MinGW, the sciteco.exe will still link to MSVCRT and the Windows
   system DLLs, but they already ship with Windows.
 * On MinGW, even a static build will still require the gspawn-win32-helper-console.exe
   which is used by glib to implement g_spawn with redirection.
   We cannot get around that.
 * It would be better to let this be decided by the package builder using
   the standard env variables like LDFLAGS. However, this does not seem to
   work well with libtool. It IS possible to define LDFLAGS="-all-static" when
   calling make but this approach sucks.

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