Archive shared library in AIX (#11850)

* Archive shared library in AIX

This code change to ensure we archive shared libraries in AIX.

The things we do are:
Archive shared library
Install archived shared library
Build all must build the archived shared library
blibpath must have the archived shared library dependency.

* Archive shared library in AIX.

Made changes as per the review comments given in the first
PR request.

They are:-
Use self.environment.machines[t.for_machine].is_aix()
Remove trial spaces
Use of val instead of internal
Changed comments wherever requested

* Space after octothorpe

* Fixed failed test case causing build break during install section

* Moved AIX specific code to AIXDynamicLinker from backend

* Fix indentation, trailing spaces, add type annotations and Linux/macOS build break

* Remove some more trailing space issues

* Fixed the wrong return type in linkers

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
index 3fd58968f..b8f51322b 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/compilers/compilers.py
@@ -938,6 +938,12 @@ class Compiler(HoldableObject, metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
         return self.linker.build_rpath_args(
             env, build_dir, from_dir, rpath_paths, build_rpath, install_rpath)
 
+    def get_archive_name(self, filename: str) -> str:
+        return self.linker.get_archive_name(filename)
+
+    def get_command_to_archive_shlib(self) -> T.List[str]:
+        return self.linker.get_command_to_archive_shlib()
+
     def thread_flags(self, env: 'Environment') -> T.List[str]:
         return []