Summary: let us build tailscale/go's cmd/go as a static binary so it runs on NixOS, but then still be able to build cgo binaries with it.
Upstream status: should but haven't.
Importance: required for NixOS users inside the company, including some of our builders
Example prior commit: a2f29de
(Then used in 26292c0, 178d6bc, etc)
cc @danderson