rustc: Compare paths with --extern, not bytes #15971
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The right hand side of the comparison in these checks are values of type
Option<&Path> which are normalized versions of the left-hand side, so they're
not guaranteed to be byte-for-byte equivalent even though they're the same path.
For this reasons, the command line arguments are promoted to paths for
comparison of equality.
This fixes a bug on windows where if a library was specified with --extern it
would then be picked up twice because it was not considered to have been
previously registered.