[6.2][build] Make it possible to build a cross-compilation toolchain for Android, including Testing #83503
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Explanation: Add a linker flag for the upcoming 16 KB page support in Android, generate an Android CMake toolchain file that can be used to cross-compile repos like cmark and Testing, and add a build flag that makes it easy to build cross-compilation toolchains, by disabling the cross-compilation of all host tools and macros for listed
--cross-compile-hosts
, leaving only the Swift runtime libraries in a cross-compilation SDK.Scope: Build changes that either only affect Android or have to be explicitly enabled with a new
build-script
flagIssue: #80788
Original PR: #81596, single supporting change from #81386, #83260, #83422
Risk: Very low, only affects Android
Testing: Passed CI and we're using these patches in preliminary builds of an official Android CI job, which uses these changes to pass the full compiler validation suite and produce an Android SDK bundle
Reviewer: @edymtt
The Swift core team tasked the Swift on Android workgroup with putting together an official 6.2 Android CI job, so @marcprux and I have been piecing together a pull for that, swiftlang/swift-docker#467, and these are some of the last trunk patches we had to backport to 6.2.