linkers: Add a representation for the Apple AR Linker

Which is old and annoying and doesn't expose global symbols by default,
so we need a work around.

see: #10587
see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2002-07/msg00025.html

mesonbuild/compilers/detect.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     guess_win_linker,
     guess_nix_linker,
     AIXArLinker,
+    AppleArLinker,
     ArLinker,
     ArmarLinker,
     ArmClangDynamicLinker,
@@ -344,7 +345,7 @@ def detect_static_linker(env: 'Environment', compiler: Compiler) -> StaticLinker
         if p.returncode == 0:
             return ArLinker(compiler.for_machine, linker)
         if p.returncode == 1 and err.startswith('usage'): # OSX
-            return ArLinker(compiler.for_machine, linker)
+            return AppleArLinker(compiler.for_machine, linker)
         if p.returncode == 1 and err.startswith('Usage'): # AIX
             return AIXArLinker(linker)
         if p.returncode == 1 and err.startswith('ar: bad option: --'): # Solaris

mesonbuild/linkers/__init__.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
     VisualStudioLikeLinker,
     VisualStudioLinker,
     IntelVisualStudioLinker,
+    AppleArLinker,
     ArLinker,
     ArmarLinker,
     DLinker,
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@
     'C2000Linker',
     'TILinker',
     'AIXArLinker',
+    'AppleArLinker',
     'PGIStaticLinker',
     'NvidiaHPC_StaticLinker',
 

mesonbuild/linkers/linkers.py

@@ -215,6 +215,13 @@ def get_std_link_args(self, env: 'Environment', is_thin: bool) -> T.List[str]:
             return self.std_args
 
 
+class AppleArLinker(ArLinker):
+
+    # mostly this is used to determine that we need to call ranlib
+
+    id = 'applear'
+
+
 class ArmarLinker(ArLikeLinker):
     id = 'armar'