build: drop the dead rustSysroot/rustHostTriple fields from findRustLld()

[robobun]

Follow-up to #41020. It finishes the last open review nit from that PR.

Problem

• findRustLld() in scripts/build/tools.ts:656 still declares and returns rustSysroot and rustHostTriple. Its only caller, resolveLlvmToolchain() (tools.ts:575), reads rustLld and rustLlvmVersion only since build: remove the dead ELF regular-LTO summary fix-up (and the llvm-tools rustup component) #41020 dropped the two fields from Toolchain.
• The two return fields have no reader. test/internal/build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts was the last one, and it only used them as a window into the probe.

Fix

• Drop rustSysroot and rustHostTriple from the return type, from none, and from the two return sites. The local sysroot and rustHostTriple values stay. They build the lib/rustlib/<host>/bin path that locates rust-lld.
• The probe test now observes the pin through the real output. The fake sysroot has a gcc-ld/ld.lld only under sysroot-for-<channel>/lib/rustlib/host-for-<channel>/. With the pin, findRustLld("linux") returns that path. Without it, the fake rustc answers …-for-unset, the path does not exist, and rustLld is undefined.
• Verified: test/internal/build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts passes. With RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN removed from the probe env in tools.ts, it fails with rustLld: undefined. The eight test/internal build-script tests pass (55 tests). tsc -p scripts/build reports the same six pre-existing errors as main.

Background

• findRustLld() runs at configure time. It asks rustc --print sysroot and rustc -vV for the sysroot and the host triple, then looks for <sysroot>/lib/rustlib/<host>/bin/gcc-ld/ld.lld. The build links with that lld when rustc's LLVM is newer than clang's.
• RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN pins the rustup proxy to the channel from rust-toolchain.toml. Without the pin, a proxy run in the repo root installs every component and target the file lists (about 2.4 GB). The probe test exists to keep that pin in place.

Notes

• The other two nits from the build: remove the dead ELF regular-LTO summary fix-up (and the llvm-tools rustup component) #41020 review are already in main: scripts/build/rust.ts no longer imports join, and the three test/internal/source-lints/ mock Toolchain literals no longer set rustSysroot/rustHostTriple.
• The tempDir file map accepts a function value that receives { root }. The fake rustc uses it to print an absolute sysroot path, so rustLld matches join(String(dir), ldLld) exactly.
• Commands run: USE_SYSTEM_BUN=1 bun test on the eight test/internal build-script files, bun bd test test/internal/build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts, bunx tsc --noEmit -p scripts/build/tsconfig.json on this branch and on main, bunx prettier --check on both files.

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Layer / File(s)	Summary
Narrow findRustLld result scripts/build/tools.ts	findRustLld now returns only rustLld and rustLlvmVersion for empty, partial, and successful results.
Update toolchain probe fixture test/internal/build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts	The test fixture uses channel-specific fake Rust paths and verifies the linker path and LLVM version returned by findRustLld.

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[claude]

LGTM — straightforward dead-field cleanup.

What was reviewed:

• Confirmed resolveLlvmToolchain() (tools.ts:575) is the sole caller and only destructures rustLld/rustLlvmVersion; no remaining readers of rustSysroot/rustHostTriple anywhere in the repo.
• The reworked test still exercises both probes: the fake rustc folds RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN into both the sysroot path and the host triple, so an unpinned invocation of either would resolve a nonexistent ld.lld and fail the .toEqual on rustLld.
• Checked the tempDir({ root }) callback + chmodSync on the fixture ld.lld so isExecutable() accepts it; test.skipIf(isWindows) retained for the shell-script fixture.

Extended reasoning...

Overview

This PR removes two return fields (rustSysroot, rustHostTriple) from findRustLld() in scripts/build/tools.ts that became write-only after #41020 dropped them from the Toolchain type. The only production caller at tools.ts:575 destructures just rustLld and rustLlvmVersion, and a repo-wide grep confirms no other consumers. The accompanying test in test/internal/build-rust-toolchain-probe.test.ts is reworked to assert the same RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN-pinning invariant through the real output (rustLld resolving to a fixture path) instead of the removed intermediate fields — the fixture now materializes an actual executable gcc-ld/ld.lld under the pinned sysroot-for-<channel>/lib/rustlib/host-for-<channel>/ path so isExecutable() succeeds only when both rustc probes carried the pin.

Security risks

None. This touches configure-time build tooling (tool discovery for the optional rust-lld linker) and an internal test fixture. No runtime code, no user-facing surface, no untrusted-input handling. The spawnSync calls to rustc are pre-existing, legitimate environment probing per scripts/build/CLAUDE.md.

Level of scrutiny

Low. This is dead-code removal explicitly required by REVIEW.md ("Delete dead code in the same PR that makes it dead"), following up on a review nit from the parent PR. The diff is ~30 lines across two files with no behavioral change to the build — the local sysroot and rustHostTriple variables that build the rustlib path are kept; only the unused return-object fields go. The test refactor is arguably an improvement: it now asserts the actual contract callers rely on rather than test-only observation fields, and it would still fail (with rustLld: undefined) if either the --print sysroot or the -vV probe dropped the RUSTUP_TOOLCHAIN env pin.

Other factors

No CODEOWNERS entries cover scripts/build/ or test/internal/. The only review activity is a coderabbitai bot COMMENTED review with inline threads at the test's header comment (line 13), which the second commit addressed by clarifying the PATH wording; no human CHANGES_REQUESTED is outstanding. The bug-hunt exit reason was dry_streak with zero findings and zero ruled-out candidates. The test conforms to test/CLAUDE.md conventions: using dir = tempDir(...), single .toEqual on the whole return object, afterEach env restoration, and test.skipIf(isWindows) for the #!/bin/sh fixture.

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