stable-4.10: backport two buildsys changes to the GAPARCH #3182
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This PR backports two commits from master that change the GAPARCH string:
These changes are useful when one wants to debug HPC-GAP and Julia builds of GAP together with packages, as the different GAPARCHs ensure that rebuilding the same package for each build variant leaves separate binaries, so the package then can be used by those different builds (i.e., no need to keep separate pkg dirs, one can use out-of-tree builds for the different build configs).
The main concern (and the reason I did not push these backports directly) is that perhaps some code somewhere could be broken by the modified GAPARCH... We already tried hard to ensure that all deposited packages keep working, and I can't really think of problems, but I want that (a) tests for this change are run, and (b) would like to know if e.g. @ChrisJefferson can think of any potential issues