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depends: suggest GNU patch for macOS <= 13

Placeholder Sjors Provoost requested to merge github/fork/Sjors/2024/04/gnu-patch into master

Fixes #29792 (closed)

Adds a note to depends/README.md that on older versions of macOS you may need to use GNU patch. I phrased as a troubleshooting hint, rather than make it a default recommendation, because:

  1. so far only I ran into it, and fanquake couldn't reproduce
  2. BDB is only used for the legacy wallet, which itself is deprecated
  3. it seems better to replace as few default tools on macOS as possible

The instructions in build-osx.md don't even mention depends, so I don't touch those here.

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