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This reverts commit 2163ca2d03.
Removing `export AR=gcc-ar` was apparently done based on the assumption
that the linked issue (https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/1646)
had been solved completely on meson's side.
Instead, their solution, seen in
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/2815, had been to force
gcc-ar for linking static libraries; by exporting `AR=ar`, we were
accidentally breaking static libraries when LTO is enabled. This was
noticed by leah while we were trying to build qemu-user-static using the
normal libglib-devel package (built with meson, which for us defaults to
enabling LTO).
Unfortunately, while correct, this change wasn't enough to fix the
static glib build, which had to resort to disabling LTO.