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Auto merge of #5203 - matklad:out-dir, r=alexcrichton
cargo build --out-dir
This is intended to fix#4875. Very much work in progress, just to figure out how exactly `--out-dir` should work :)
The path of least resistance for implementing `out-dir` would be to just link everything from `target/debug` to the `out-dir`. However, the problem with this approach is that we link *too much* to the `target/debug`. For example, if you run `cargo build --bin foo`, you'll find not only the `foo` itself there, but also rlibs from the same workspace.
I think it's rather important not to copy extra stuff to out-dir, so it is implemented as a completely new parameter, which is threaded through various config structs and applies *only* to the top-level units (i.e, to the stuff user explicitly requested to compile on the command line).
I also plan to add platform specific tests here, to check that we get .pdb on windows and .dSYM on macs for various crate-types.
Because, in general, a single target may produce multiple files, `out-dir` has to be a directory, you can't directly specify the output *file*.
Note that artifacts are still generated to the `target` dir as well.
Also cc @nirbheek, I hope that this might be useful for Meson integration, because `--out-dir` should be more straightforward to use than `--message-format=json`.
The end result, for `cargo build --bin rustraytracer --out-dir out` on windows looks like this:

Note how we have fewer files in the `out` :)
r? @alexcrichton
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