[ELF] Change build-id default to sha1 (#93943)
The current default, build-id=fast, is only 8 bytes due to the usage of 64-bit XXH3. This is incompatible with RPM packaging tools which requires >=16 bytes [1]. In Clang the ENABLE_LINKER_BUILD_ID define makes it pass --build-id without a specific hash type. When also defaulting to LLD, this provides a pretty broken default out-of-box. Using XXH3 was a considerable performance advantage when build-id was first implemented, because sha1 was really sha1 and rather slow. Nowadays sha1 is just 160-bit BLAKE3 which is decently fast and not cryptographically broken, so it should be a good default. Note that the default remains "fast" for wasm because sha1 for wasm is still real sha1. Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/43483. [1]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/blob/b7d427728b8ba8734ba47d51849a5736bdd727cd/build/files.c#L1883
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