Kim Morrison e96b0ff39c fix: use response files on all platforms to avoid ARG_MAX (#12540)
This PR extends Lake's use of response files (`@file`) from Windows-only
to all platforms, avoiding `ARG_MAX` limits when invoking `clang`/`ar`
with many object files.

Lake already uses response files on Windows to avoid exceeding CLI
length limits. On macOS and Linux, linking Mathlib's ~15,000 object
files into a shared library can exceed macOS's `ARG_MAX` (262,144
bytes). Both `clang` and `gcc` support `@file` response files on all
platforms, so this is safe to enable unconditionally.

Reported as a macOS issue at
https://leanprover.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/270676-lean4/topic/The.20clang.20command.20line.20with.20all.20~15.2C000.20Mathlib.20.2Ec.2Eo.2Eexport/near/574369912:
the Mathlib cache ships Linux `.so` shared libs but not macOS `.dylib`
files, so `precompileModules` on macOS triggers a full re-link that
exceeds `ARG_MAX`.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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