build-cores: detect cores automatically if set to 0

This changes makes nix detect a machines available cores automatically whenever build-cores is set to 0.

So far, nix simply passed NIX_BUILD_CORES=0 whenever build-cores is set to 0. (only when build-cores is unset it was detecting cores automatically)

The behavior of passing NIX_BUILD_CORES=0 leads to a performance penalty when sourcing nixpkgs' generic builder's `setup.sh`, as setup.sh has to execute `nproc`. This significantly slows down sourcing of setup.sh

tests/functional/build-cores.nix

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+with import ./config.nix;
+
+{
+  # Test derivation that checks the NIX_BUILD_CORES environment variable
+  testCores = mkDerivation {
+    name = "test-build-cores";
+    buildCommand = ''
+      echo "$NIX_BUILD_CORES" > $out
+    '';
+  };
+}

tests/functional/build-cores.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+source common.sh
+
+clearStoreIfPossible
+
+echo "Testing build-cores configuration behavior..."
+
+# Test 1: When build-cores is set to a non-zero value, NIX_BUILD_CORES should have that value
+echo "Testing build-cores=4..."
+rm -f "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output
+nix-build --cores 4 build-cores.nix -A testCores -o "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output
+result=$(cat "$(readlink "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output)")
+if [[ "$result" != "4" ]]; then
+    echo "FAIL: Expected NIX_BUILD_CORES=4, got $result"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "PASS: build-cores=4 correctly sets NIX_BUILD_CORES=4"
+rm -f "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output
+
+# Test 2: When build-cores is set to 0, NIX_BUILD_CORES should be resolved to getDefaultCores()
+echo "Testing build-cores=0..."
+nix-build --cores 0 build-cores.nix -A testCores -o "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output
+result=$(cat "$(readlink "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output)")
+if [[ "$result" == "0" ]]; then
+    echo "FAIL: NIX_BUILD_CORES should not be 0 when build-cores=0"
+    exit 1
+fi
+echo "PASS: build-cores=0 resolves to NIX_BUILD_CORES=$result (should be > 0)"
+rm -f "$TEST_ROOT"/build-cores-output
+
+echo "All build-cores tests passed!"

tests/functional/meson.build

@@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ suites = [
       'placeholders.sh',
       'ssh-relay.sh',
       'build.sh',
+      'build-cores.sh',
       'build-delete.sh',
       'output-normalization.sh',
       'selfref-gc.sh',