Try another way to detect the result type of strerror_r().

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

Commit: 751f532b9766fb5d3c334758abea95b7bb085c5a
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2018-09-26T22:23:13Z
Releases: 12.0
Try another way to detect the result type of strerror_r().

The method we've traditionally used, of redeclaring strerror_r() to
see if the compiler complains of inconsistent declarations, turns out
not to work reliably because some compilers only report a warning,
not an error.  Amazingly, this has gone undetected for years, even
though it certainly breaks our detection of whether strerror_r
succeeded.

Let's instead test whether the compiler will take the result of
strerror_r() as a switch() argument.  It's possible this won't
work universally either, but it's the best idea I could come up with
on the spur of the moment.

We should probably back-patch this once the dust settles, but
first let's see what the buildfarm thinks of it.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/10877.1537993279@sss.pgh.pa.us

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PathChange+/−
config/c-library.m4 modified +9 −9
configure modified +4 −6
src/include/pg_config.h.in modified +1 −1
src/include/pg_config.h.win32 modified +1 −1

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