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One module uses a generic vector caster from `<pybind11/stl.h>` while
the other exports `std::vector<int>` with a local `py:bind_vector`.

Attempting to mix py::module_local and non-module_local classes results
in some unexpected/undesirable behaviour:

- if a class is registered non-local by some other module, a later
  attempt to register it locally fails.  It doesn't need to: it is
  perfectly acceptable for the local registration to simply override
  the external global registration.
- going the other way (i.e. module `A` registers a type `T` locally,
  then `B` registers the same type `T` globally) causes a more serious
  issue: `A.T`'s constructors no longer work because the `self` argument
  gets converted to a `B.T`, which then fails to resolve.

Changing the cast precedence to prefer local over global fixes this and
makes it work more consistently, regardless of module load order.

This commit adds a `py::module_local` attribute that lets you confine a
registered type to the module (more technically, the shared object) in
which it is defined, by registering it with:

    py::class_<C>(m, "C", py::module_local())

This will allow the same C++ class `C` to be registered in different
modules with independent sets of class definitions.  On the Python side,
two such types will be completely distinct; on the C++ side, the C++
type resolves to a different Python type in each module.

This applies `py::module_local` automatically to `stl_bind.h` bindings
when the container value type looks like something global: i.e. when it
is a converting type (for example, when binding a `std::vector<int>`),
or when it is a registered type itself bound with `py::module_local`.
This should help resolve potential future conflicts (e.g. if two
completely unrelated modules both try to bind a `std::vector<int>`.
Users can override the automatic selection by adding a
`py::module_local()` or `py::module_local(false)`.

Note that this does mildly break backwards compatibility: bound stl
containers of basic types like `std::vector<int>` cannot be bound in one
module and returned in a different module.  (This can be re-enabled with
`py::module_local(false)` as described above, but with the potential for
eventual load conflicts).

The builtin exception handler currently doesn't work across modules
under clang/libc++ for builtin pybind exceptions like
`pybind11::error_already_set` or `pybind11::stop_iteration`: under
RTLD_LOCAL module loading clang considers each module's exception
classes distinct types.  This then means that the base exception
translator fails to catch the exceptions and the fall through to the
generic `std::exception` handler, which completely breaks things like
`stop_iteration`: only the `stop_iteration` of the first module loaded
actually works properly; later modules raise a RuntimeError with no
message when trying to invoke their iterators.

For example, two modules defined like this exhibit the behaviour under
clang++/libc++:

z1.cpp:
    #include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
    #include <pybind11/stl_bind.h>
    namespace py = pybind11;
    PYBIND11_MODULE(z1, m) {
        py::bind_vector<std::vector<long>>(m, "IntVector");
    }

z2.cpp:
    #include <pybind11/pybind11.h>
    #include <pybind11/stl_bind.h>
    namespace py = pybind11;
    PYBIND11_MODULE(z2, m) {
        py::bind_vector<std::vector<double>>(m, "FloatVector");
    }

Python:
    import z1, z2
    for i in z2.FloatVector():
        pass

results in:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "zs.py", line 2, in <module>
        for i in z2.FloatVector():
    RuntimeError

This commit fixes the issue by adding a new exception translator each
time the internals pointer is initialized from python builtins: this
generally means the internals data was initialized by some other
module.  (The extra translator(s) are skipped under libstdc++).

This adds the infrastructure for a separate test plugin for cross-module
tests.  (This commit contains no tests that actually use it, but the
following commits do; this is separated simply to provide a cleaner
commit history).