Building Semgrep for Linux on arm64

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As per PR #8243, it is now possible to just pip install semgrep.

  1. Download the repository: git clone https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep
  2. Set up the development environment: make dev-setup
  3. Install opam: apt-get install opam
  4. Initialise opam: opam init && eval $(opam config env)
  5. Build: make
  6. Install pipenv: sudo apt install pipenv
  7. Downgrade ruamel.yaml==0.16.0: pip install 'ruamel.yaml==0.16.0'
  8. Install the Semgrep CLI: cd cli && python setup.py install