[issue31625] stop using ranlib

[Benjamin Peterson]

New submission from Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>:

As far as I'm aware, every modern *nix's ar supports an "s" flag that removes the need to run ranlib separately on a a static library. We should just do that and stop running ranlib. That saves us some lines in configure.ac and the Makefile.

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components: Build
messages: 303301
nosy: benjamin.peterson
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: stop using ranlib
versions: Python 3.7

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