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Before, the code for building glibc stubs used a special case of the Cache API that did not add any file inputs, and did not use writeManifest(). This is not really how the Cache API is designed to work and it shows because there was a race condition. This commit adds as an input file the abilists file that comes with Zig's installation, which has the added benefit of making glibc stub caching properly detect cache invalidation when the user decides to overwrite their abilists file. This harmonizes with the rest of how Zig works, which intentionally allows you to hack the installation files and have it behave properly with the cache system. Finally, because of having any file inputs, the normal API flow of the Cache system can be used, eliminating the one place that used the Cache API in a special way. In other words, it uses writeManifest() now and properly obeys the cache hit/miss semantics. closes #13160
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