Auto merge of #44094 - alexcrichton:long-linkers, r=michaelwoerister

rustc: Attempt to handle super long linker invocations

This commit adds logic to the compiler to attempt to handle super long linker
invocations by falling back to the `@`-file syntax if the invoked command is too
large. Each OS has a limit on how many arguments and how large the arguments can
be when spawning a new process, and linkers tend to be one of those programs
that can hit the limit!

The logic implemented here is to unconditionally attempt to spawn a linker and
then if it fails to spawn with an error from the OS that indicates the command
line is too big we attempt a fallback. The fallback is roughly the same for all
linkers where an argument pointing to a file, prepended with `@`, is passed.
This file then contains all the various arguments that we want to pass to the
linker.

Closes #41190

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