[SYCL] Fix -nolibsycl and spurious spirv-link flags for SYCL offloading (#200252)

Two related driver fixes for SYCL offloading on Linux:

1. Honor -nolibsycl during linking: the SYCL runtime library
(libLLVMSYCL.so) was unconditionally added to the link line even when
-nolibsycl was passed. The flag was recognized but silently ignored at
the point where the library path is emitted.

2. Do not forward spirv-link flags to clang-sycl-linker: the driver was
passing --allow-partial-linkage and --create-library to
clang-sycl-linker for all SPIR-V offload targets, but these flags are
only meaningful to the out-of-tree spirv-link tool used by OpenMP. SYCL
uses clang-sycl-linker which does not accept them, causing a link
failure. The flags are now restricted to non-SYCL SPIR-V offload kinds.

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Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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