Cherrypick fixes for #16368 into Bazel 6.3.0#18808

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Jun 29, 2023

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Update D8/R8 dependency in bazel to 8.0.40

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Add options converters specific to R8 to avoid depending on android_builder_lib which causes classpath conflicts with D8 classes.
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Add android_gmaven_r8 to bazel's WORKSPACE file so that it overrides the version of R8 that might come from android_remote_tools.WORKSPACE in a released version of bazel used to run the test (which…
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Collect the contexts of D8 compiler-synthesized classes.

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Group synthetic classes with their context classes in DexFileSplitter so that synthetic classes don't end up without their context classes in dex shards, which will causing merging to fail in DexFi…
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