various improvements over incremental build #4747
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a bunch of improvment including:
no unneeded rebuild for cmi when changing package specs
better postbuild support, (built in $out_last support)
previously for each target, the postbuild command has to be repeated, we introduced $out_last to remove such duplication
old
TODO: rule variables are expanded when used, if we don't use the dynamism we should interoplate directly