Fix an issue with library compilation on Macs #25844
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Library compilation on Macs has recently started generating the error:
I believe we added this extra library specification for a reason (linking is annoyingly fragile), and it seems likely that reason is no longer necessary, so it should be safe to remove the extra library specification in general. Experimentation with removing the extra library linking on linux makes this seem likely.
For many tests, this was part of the specified ".lastcompopts" file and so could be removed from the tests. For the tests of generating Makefiles, we needed to modify the compiler to not add this extra use of the library.
Tested: