GCC: Check if AR works with --plugin and rc

AR from older binutils doesn't work with --plugin and rc:

[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ touch foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --plugin /usr/libexec/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/10/liblto_plugin.so rc libfoo.a foo.c
./ar: no operation specified
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$ ./ar --version
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.29.51.0.1.20180112
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
[hjl@gnu-cfl-2 bin]$

Check if AR works with --plugin and rc before passing --plugin to AR and
RANLIB.

	PR ld/27173
	* configure: Regenerated.
	* libtool.m4 (_LT_CMD_OLD_ARCHIVE): Check if AR works with
	--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.

config/

	PR ld/27173
	* gcc-plugin.m4 (GCC_PLUGIN_OPTION): Check if AR works with
	--plugin and rc before enabling --plugin.

libiberty/

	PR ld/27173
	* configure: Regenerated.

zlib/

	PR ld/27173
	* configure: Regenerated.

2 files changed, 108 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libiberty/ChangeLog b/libiberty/ChangeLog
index 3fffbc0..8e5f5dc 100644
--- a/libiberty/ChangeLog
+++ b/libiberty/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2021-01-11  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
+	PR ld/27173
+	* configure: Regenerated.
+
 2021-01-09  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
 	* Makefile.in (AR): Add @AR_PLUGIN_OPTION@
diff --git a/libiberty/configure b/libiberty/configure
index 5d7aee3..160b8c9 100755
--- a/libiberty/configure
+++ b/libiberty/configure
@@ -2949,6 +2949,109 @@ for plugin in $plugin_names; do
     break
   fi
 done
+if test -n "$ac_tool_prefix"; then
+  # Extract the first word of "${ac_tool_prefix}ar", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy ${ac_tool_prefix}ar; 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_AR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$AR"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_AR="$AR" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$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_AR="${ac_tool_prefix}ar"
+    $as_echo "$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
+AR=$ac_cv_prog_AR
+if test -n "$AR"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $AR" >&5
+$as_echo "$AR" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+
+fi
+if test -z "$ac_cv_prog_AR"; then
+  ac_ct_AR=$AR
+  # Extract the first word of "ar", so it can be a program name with args.
+set dummy ar; 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_AR+:} false; then :
+  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
+else
+  if test -n "$ac_ct_AR"; then
+  ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR="$ac_ct_AR" # Let the user override the test.
+else
+as_save_IFS=$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_AR="ar"
+    $as_echo "$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_AR=$ac_cv_prog_ac_ct_AR
+if test -n "$ac_ct_AR"; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $ac_ct_AR" >&5
+$as_echo "$ac_ct_AR" >&6; }
+else
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+fi
+
+  if test "x$ac_ct_AR" = x; then
+    AR=""
+  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
+    AR=$ac_ct_AR
+  fi
+else
+  AR="$ac_cv_prog_AR"
+fi
+
+if test "${AR}" = "" ; then
+  as_fn_error $? "Required archive tool 'ar' not found on PATH." "$LINENO" 5
+fi
+touch conftest.c
+${AR} $plugin_option rc conftest.a conftest.c
+if test "$?" != 0; then
+  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: WARNING: Failed: $AR $plugin_option rc" >&5
+$as_echo "$as_me: WARNING: Failed: $AR $plugin_option rc" >&2;}
+  plugin_option=
+fi
+rm -f conftest.*
 if test -n "$plugin_option"; then
   PLUGIN_OPTION="$plugin_option"
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $plugin_option" >&5