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Fix linker error when building complex contracts

Sergej Kostjucenko requested to merge cmichi-fix-linker-error into master

Created by: cmichi

Closes https://github.com/paritytech/cargo-contract/issues/198 and https://github.com/paritytech/ink/issues/701.

My understanding is that the linker error was a result of conflicting build artifacts in the target directory.

The root contract is build with the ink-as-dependency feature enabled for sub-contracts, whereas the sub-contracts are build without this flag. This results in the external function __ink_generate_metadata (which is only build when ink-as-dependency is disabled) not being available in the artifacts, but cargo still tries to reuse the artifacts. Hence the linker error.

I fixed it now by building sub-contracts into sub-folders of target/ink/. This way all artifacts are separate.

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