autoconf: Rely on ar supporting index creation

This way we don't need RANLIB anymore, making it a bit simpler for the meson
build to generate Makefile.global for PGXS compatibility.

FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, the only platforms where we didn't use AROPT=crs,
all have supported the 's' option for a long time.

On macOS we ran ranlib after installing a static library. This was added a
long time ago, in 58ad65e. I cannot reproduce an issue in more recent
macOS versions. This is removed now.

Based on discussion with Tom, I left the 'touch' at the end of static
libraries generation, added in 826eff5, in place. While it looks like
current versions of Apple's ar/ranlib don't need it, it was needed not too
long ago.

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20221005200710.luvw5evhwf6clig6@awork3.anarazel.de

Author: anarazel

configure

@@ -692,7 +692,6 @@ AR
 STRIP_SHARED_LIB
 STRIP_STATIC_LIB
 STRIP
-RANLIB
 with_gnu_ld
 LD
 LDFLAGS_SL
@@ -9557,98 +9556,6 @@ with_gnu_ld=$ac_cv_prog_gnu_ld
 
 
 
-if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
-  # Extract the first word of "${ac_tool_prefix}ranlib", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy ${ac_tool_prefix}ranlib; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_prog_RANLIB+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  if test -n "$RANLIB"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_RANLIB="$RANLIB" # Let the user override the test.
-else
-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
-    ac_cv_prog_RANLIB="${ac_tool_prefix}ranlib"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-fi
-fi
-RANLIB=$ac_cv_prog_RANLIB
-if test -n "$RANLIB"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $RANLIB" >&5
-$as_echo "$RANLIB" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
-fi
-if test -z "$ac_cv_prog_RANLIB"; then
-  ac_ct_RANLIB=$RANLIB
-  # Extract the first word of "ranlib", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy ranlib; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if ${ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_RANLIB+:} false; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  if test -n "$ac_ct_RANLIB"; then
-  ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_RANLIB="$ac_ct_RANLIB" # Let the user override the test.
-else
-as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if as_fn_executable_p "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; then
-    ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_RANLIB="ranlib"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-fi
-fi
-ac_ct_RANLIB=$ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_RANLIB
-if test -n "$ac_ct_RANLIB"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_ct_RANLIB" >&5
-$as_echo "$ac_ct_RANLIB" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-  if test "x$ac_ct_RANLIB" = x; then
-    RANLIB=":"
-  else
-    case $cross_compiling:$ac_tool_warned in
-yes:)
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet" >&5
-$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: using cross tools not prefixed with host triplet" >&2;}
-ac_tool_warned=yes ;;
-esac
-    RANLIB=$ac_ct_RANLIB
-  fi
-else
-  RANLIB="$ac_cv_prog_RANLIB"
-fi
-
 
   if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
   # Extract the first word of "${ac_tool_prefix}strip", so it can be a program name with args.

configure.ac

@@ -1131,7 +1131,6 @@ AC_ARG_VAR(LDFLAGS_SL, [extra linker flags for linking shared libraries only])
 PGAC_PROG_LD
 AC_SUBST(LD)
 AC_SUBST(with_gnu_ld)
-AC_PROG_RANLIB
 PGAC_CHECK_STRIP
 AC_CHECK_TOOL(AR, ar, ar)
 if test "$PORTNAME" = "win32"; then

src/Makefile.global.in

@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ ZIC = @ZIC@
 # Linking
 
 AR = @AR@
+AROPT = crs
 LIBS = @LIBS@
 LDAP_LIBS_FE = @LDAP_LIBS_FE@
 LDAP_LIBS_BE = @LDAP_LIBS_BE@
@@ -318,7 +319,6 @@ LDFLAGS_EX = @LDFLAGS_EX@
 LDFLAGS_SL += @LDFLAGS_SL@
 LDREL = -r
 LDOUT = -o
-RANLIB = @RANLIB@
 WINDRES = @WINDRES@
 X = @EXEEXT@
 

src/Makefile.shlib

@@ -252,15 +252,14 @@ all-static-lib: $(stlib)
 all-shared-lib: $(shlib)
 
 # In this rule, "touch $@" works around a problem on some platforms wherein
-# ranlib updates the library file's mod time with a value calculated to
+# ar updates the library file's mod time with a value calculated to
 # seconds precision.  If the filesystem has sub-second timestamps, this can
 # cause the library file to appear older than its input files, triggering
 # parallel-make problems.
 ifndef haslibarule
 $(stlib): $(OBJS) | $(SHLIB_PREREQS)
 	rm -f $@
 	$(LINK.static) $@ $^
-	$(RANLIB) $@
 	touch $@
 endif #haslibarule
 
@@ -394,10 +393,6 @@ install-lib-pc: lib$(NAME).pc installdirs-lib
 
 install-lib-static: $(stlib) installdirs-lib
 	$(INSTALL_STLIB) $< '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)/$(stlib)'
-ifeq ($(PORTNAME), darwin)
-	cd '$(DESTDIR)$(libdir)' && \
-	$(RANLIB) $(stlib)
-endif
 
 install-lib-shared: $(shlib) installdirs-lib
 ifdef soname

src/makefiles/Makefile.aix

@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 # symbol names to tell them what to export/import.
 MAKE_EXPORTS= true
 
-RANLIB= touch
-AROPT = crs
-
 # -blibpath must contain ALL directories where we should look for libraries
 libpath := $(shell echo $(subst -L,:,$(filter -L/%,$(LDFLAGS))) | sed -e's/ //g'):/usr/lib:/lib
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.cygwin

@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ endif
 # (see http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq.html#SEC110)
 LIBS:=$(filter-out -lm -lc, $(LIBS))
 
-AROPT = crs
-
 override CPPFLAGS += -DWIN32_STACK_RLIMIT=$(WIN32_STACK_RLIMIT)
 
 ifneq (,$(findstring backend,$(subdir)))

src/makefiles/Makefile.darwin

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-AROPT = crs
-
 # env var name to use in place of LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 ld_library_path_var = DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-AROPT = cr
-
 export_dynamic = -Wl,-export-dynamic
 rpath = -Wl,-R'$(rpathdir)'
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.linux

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-AROPT = crs
-
 export_dynamic = -Wl,-E
 # Use --enable-new-dtags to generate DT_RUNPATH instead of DT_RPATH.
 # This allows LD_LIBRARY_PATH to still work when needed.

src/makefiles/Makefile.netbsd

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-AROPT = cr
-
 export_dynamic = -Wl,-E
 rpath = -Wl,-R'$(rpathdir)'
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.openbsd

@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-AROPT = cr
-
 export_dynamic = -Wl,-E
 rpath = -Wl,-R'$(rpathdir)'
 

src/makefiles/Makefile.solaris

@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 # src/makefiles/Makefile.solaris
-
-AROPT = crs
 rpath = -Wl,-rpath,'$(rpathdir)'
 
 ifeq ($(with_gnu_ld), yes)

src/makefiles/Makefile.win32

@@ -10,8 +10,6 @@ endif
 
 override CPPFLAGS += -DWIN32_STACK_RLIMIT=$(WIN32_STACK_RLIMIT)
 
-AROPT = crs
-
 ifneq (,$(findstring backend,$(subdir)))
 ifeq (,$(findstring conversion_procs,$(subdir)))
 ifeq (,$(findstring libpqwalreceiver,$(subdir)))