Update the default outputSelection setting of solc to decrease the artifacts size

[alcuadrado]

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[schaable]

Looks good. I left a nitpick and a question.

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates Hardhat’s default Solidity compiler outputSelection to request a narrower, explicitly enumerated subset of outputs (instead of the broader evm.bytecode / evm.deployedBytecode / metadata), with the goal of reducing generated artifact/build-info output size.

Changes:

• Introduce DEFAULT_OUTPUT_SELECTION and reuse it from both config resolution and compilation job solc-input construction.
• Update compilation job behavior/tests to reflect the new default selector set (and removal of metadata).
• Update ignition-core test fixtures that hardcode the build info id affected by the changed solc input.

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File	Description
packages/ignition-core/test/helpers/execution-result-fixtures.ts	Updates hardcoded build info id fixture values after solc input/outputSelection change.
packages/hardhat/test/internal/builtin-plugins/solidity/build-system/compilation-job.ts	Updates expected outputSelection in tests to match the new defaults.
packages/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/solidity/constants.ts	Adds shared DEFAULT_OUTPUT_SELECTION definition.
packages/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/solidity/config.ts	Switches compiler config defaults to use DEFAULT_OUTPUT_SELECTION.
packages/hardhat/src/internal/builtin-plugins/solidity/build-system/compilation-job.ts	Ensures compilation jobs always include the shared default selectors when building solc input.
.changeset/tiny-mangos-glow.md	Adds a patch changeset entry for the Hardhat package.

[Copilot]

The default outputSelection now uses granular selectors (e.g. evm.deployedBytecode.immutableReferences, evm.bytecode.sourceMap, etc.). Since Hardhat supports compiling a wide range of solc versions (including older 0.4.x/0.5.x via solc-js), some of these selector paths may not be accepted by older compilers. Please add a regression test that compiles with the oldest supported solc version using the default settings (or gate/fallback the selector list by solc version) so compilation doesn’t fail on older versions.

Suggested change

	"*": [
	"abi",
	"evm.bytecode.linkReferences",
	"evm.bytecode.object",
	"evm.bytecode.opcodes",
	"evm.bytecode.sourceMap",
	"evm.deployedBytecode.immutableReferences",
	"evm.deployedBytecode.linkReferences",
	"evm.deployedBytecode.object",
	"evm.deployedBytecode.opcodes",
	"evm.deployedBytecode.sourceMap",
	"evm.methodIdentifiers",
	],
	"*": ["abi", "evm"],

[alcuadrado]

good point, i added tests for this