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Split --disable-tests, fix cross builds

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It might seem obnoxious to have yet more configure flags, but I found
controlling both the unit and functional tests with one flag was quite
confusing because they are so different:

- unit tests depending on building, functional tests don't (e.g. when
  we test already-built Nix)

- unit tests can be installed, functional tests cannot

- unit tests neeed extra libraries (GTest, RapidCheck), functional
  tests need extra executables (jq).

- unit tests are run by `make check`, functional tests are run by `make
  installcheck`

Really on a technical level, they seem wholly independent. Only on a
human level ("they are both are tests") do they have anything in common.

I had messed up the logic in cross builds because of this. Now I
split the flag in two (and cleaned up a few other inconsistencies), and
the logic fixed itself.

Co-Authored-By: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ You can also build Nix for one of the [supported platforms](#platforms).
## Makefile variables
- `ENABLE_BUILD=yes` to enable building the C++ code.
- `ENABLE_TESTS=yes` to enable building the tests.
- `ENABLE_DOC_GEN=yes` to enable building the documentation (manual, man pages, etc.).
- `ENABLE_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS=yes` to enable building the functional tests.
- `ENABLE_UNIT_TESTS=yes` to enable building the unit tests.
- `OPTIMIZE=1` to enable optimizations.
- `doc_generate=yes` to enable building the documentation (manual, man pages, etc.).
The docs can take a while to build, so you may want to disable this for local development.