Re-export runfiles env vars so that dependencies can use them #1235
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I've ran into a bug where a top-level target is able to use runfiles, but if a target is in the dependencies of the top-level target, it is not able to detect them. To fix this, I patched
rules_foreign_cc
to re-export the env cars used to find runfiles, and that seems to work