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 58ad65ec2def. 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 826eff57c4c, 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
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master
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https://git.postgresql.org/pg/commitdiff/2473cb9ff374dff99437138c144fab6d9f7dfd26
Modified Files
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configure | 93 ------------------------------------------
configure.ac | 1 -
src/Makefile.global.in | 2 +-
src/Makefile.shlib | 7 +---
src/makefiles/Makefile.aix | 3 --
src/makefiles/Makefile.cygwin | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.darwin | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.freebsd | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.linux | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.netbsd | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.openbsd | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.solaris | 2 -
src/makefiles/Makefile.win32 | 2 -
13 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-)