Auto merge of #64882 - ehuss:stabilize-bare-extern, r=eddyb
Stabilize --extern flag without a path.
This stabilizes the `--extern` flag without a path, implemented in #54116.
This flag is used to add a crate that may be found in the search path to the extern prelude. The intent of stabilizing this now is to change Cargo to emit this flag for `proc_macro` when building a proc-macro crate. This will allow the ability to elide `extern crate proc_macro;` for proc-macros, one of the few places where it is still necessary.
It is intended that Cargo may also use this flag for other cases in the future as part of the [std-aware work](https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-cargo-std-aware/). There will likely be some kind of syntax where users may declare dependencies on other crates (such as `alloc`), and Cargo will use this flag so that they may be used like any other crate. At this time there are no short-term plans to use it for anything other than proc-macro.
This will not help for non-proc-macro crates that use `proc_macro`, which I believe is not too common?
An alternate approach for proc-macro is to use the `meta` crate, but from my inquiries there doesn't appear to be anyone interested in pushing that forward. The `meta` crate also doesn't help with things like `alloc` or `test`.
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