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doc: note the system requirements for V8 tests

Rodrigo Muino Tomonari requested to merge github/fork/DeeDeeG/document-test-v8-system-dependencies into master

The test-v8 Makefile target still requires Python 2, and it requires a full Xcode install on macOS, due to its use of xcodebuild at some points.

Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/36691#issuecomment-820868219

(Note for reviewers, a related PR: The test-v8 Makefile target also requires ninja, but I think it doesn't really need to require ninja. It actually downloads ninja as part of Google's depot_tools, but (apparently by mistake) does not put those on the PATH. See my other PR to put this copy of ninja on the PATH: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38299. I didn't add ninja as a requirement in this documentation, since I hope my PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38299 will make that requirement go away.)

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