Replace set-output with echo to $GITHUB_OUTPUT

The set-output method is deprecated in favor of echoing to
$GITHUB_OUTPUT for security reasons.

Count commits from last version change for patch version

The previous commit that collects release notes from the previous
release tag introduced a bug that always sets the patch version to
0.

Collect release notes from last release tag rather than last version …

…change

Process assignments and commands in order from the command line

Revert "Build and upload archives when a release is created"

This reverts commit 6fba1d8.

Improve transitive dependency tests

Express transitive static library dependencies in buildfiles

Fix problems in macOS process spawning

- Avoid closing write end of pipe when it matches user requested FD
- Close all file descriptors by default

Compile releases for generic x86-64 architecture

Local builds still build, by default, using the native architecture for better
performance.  Releases should better support more general build environments
like Github Actions that might end up using a different architecture than
the machine the release is built on.

Increase maximum error and output length to 8192 from 1024