zlib: Properly clean up static/shared distinction
This improves what commit e999def1 zlib: clean up static/shared distincion described as "kind of a mess" and "confusing". And indeed it was confusing. Now, the concept whether or not the .a file is moved to a split output is controlled by a clean variable. The defaults remain unchanged. The new approach also finally cleanly allows building statically but NOT using a split output, like all other autoconf-based projects in nixpkgs do (using the `dontDisableStatic` setting). That is important for overlays that want to enable static libs for all packages in one go, without having to hand-patch idiosynchrasies like zlib had until now. Until now, if you wanted the .a in the main output, the only way was to go via `static=false, shared=true` -- which made no sense, because you had to say `static=false` even though you want a static lib. That is fixed now.
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