Fix configure's AC_CHECK_DECLS tests to work correctly with clang.

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

Commit: 97b398ee5cb76963d1d409515232c294110f24b5
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2018-11-19T17:01:47Z
Releases: 10.7
Fix configure's AC_CHECK_DECLS tests to work correctly with clang.

The test case that Autoconf uses to discover whether a function has
been declared doesn't work reliably with clang, because clang reports
a warning not an error if the name is a known built-in function.
On some platforms, this results in a lot of compile-time warnings about
strlcpy and related functions not having been declared.

There is a fix for this (by Noah Misch) in the upstream Autoconf sources,
but since they've not made a release in years and show no indication of
doing so anytime soon, let's just absorb their fix directly.  We can
revert this when and if we update to a newer Autoconf release.

Back-patch to all supported branches.

Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/26819.1542515567@sss.pgh.pa.us

Files

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aclocal.m4 modified +1 −0
config/check_decls.m4 added +116 −0
configure modified +97 −3
configure.in modified +3 −2

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