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bigmerge 906c664a65
El SDK CI - dev / build-and-test (pull_request) Failing after 11m23s
compiler: a missing import is an error, not an empty string
import "../../NOPE/does_not_exist.el"

compiled CLEANLY — exit 0, empty stderr, and a program silently missing
everything it imported.

resolve_imports did `fs_read(src_path)` and used the result without checking.
fs_read returns "" both for "file is empty" and "file does not exist", so a
typo, a moved file, or a relative path resolved from the wrong working
directory all produced a successful build of nothing.

It caused a real wrong conclusion during test-framework work: a bisection run
from a subdirectory where ../../runtime/ did not resolve produced ELEVEN
consecutive "successful" compiles that had included no runtime at all, and the
results were believed before anyone noticed.

Missing dependency, confident success — the same shape as a test suite
reporting pass for tests that never ran, and as a benchmark reporting 0us
because the optimiser deleted the loop.

fs_exists separates the two cases, so a legitimately empty file still resolves
to "" and is fine. A path that does not exist now prints the resolved path and
exits 1, which is what build scripts check.

Verified:
  - bad import: exit 1 (was 0), message names the resolved path
  - elc-cli.el still compiles, self-hosting fixpoint byte-identical
  - neuron's full soul amalgam regeneration: exit 0, 405ms, output
    byte-identical at 1,270,212 bytes
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