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Support CODEQL_SCRATCH_DIR #451

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@hmakholm

Release 2.5.1 CodeQL CLI introduces a $CODEQL_SCRATCH_DIR environment variable that is intended for the tracer to use when it needs a scratch location that is not language specific.

Unfortunately for technical reasons its value is actually set to something that includes a language tag. This creates trouble when the action attempts to trace multiple languages at the same time, and the various codeql database trace-command invocation disagree about how it should be set.

/home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/java: Running in /home/runner/work/codeql-action/codeql-action: [/home/runner/runners/2.278.0/externals/node12/bin/node, /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/java/working/tracer-env.js, /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/java/working/env.tmp]
[2021-04-19 17:19:06] [build-stdout] /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/java/working/env.tmp
Error: Incompatible values in environment parameter CODEQL_SCRATCH_DIR: /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/cpp/working/codeql-scratch and /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/csharp/working/codeql-scratch
Error: Incompatible values in environment parameter CODEQL_SCRATCH_DIR: /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/cpp/working/codeql-scratch and /home/runner/work/_temp/codeql_databases/csharp/working/codeql-scratch
at concatTracerConfigs (/home/runner/work/codeql-action/action/lib/tracer-config.js:65:27)
at Object.getCombinedTracerConfig (/home/runner/work/codeql-action/action/lib/tracer-config.js:134:30)
at runMicrotasks (<anonymous>)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
at async Object.runInit (/home/runner/work/codeql-action/action/lib/init.js:43:12)
at async run (/home/runner/work/codeql-action/action/lib/init-action.js:100:30)
at async runWrapper (/home/runner/work/codeql-action/action/lib/init-action.js:121:9)

(https://github.com/github/codeql-action/pull/450/checks?check_run_id=2383141232)

The best way out of this seems to be to special-case the name CODEQL_SCRATCH_DIR in the runner and let it generate an initially-empty-but-existing scratch location of its own, ignoring what trace-command wants it to be.

This blocks the release of a bundle that contains 2.5.1.

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