cmake: correctly detect if system provides `regcomp`
We assume that if we are on Win32, Amiga OS, Solaris or SunOS, that the regcomp(3P) function cannot be provided by the system. Thus we will in these cases always include our own, bundled regex sources to make a regcomp implementation available. This test is obviously very fragile, and we have seen it fail on MSYS2/MinGW systems, which do in fact provide the regcomp symbol. The effect is that during compilation, we will use the "regex.h" header provided by MinGW, but use symbols provided by ourselves. This in fact may cause subtle memory layout issues, as the structure made available via MinGW doesn't match what our bundled code expects. There's one more problem with our regex detection: on the listed platforms, we will incorrectly include the bundled regex code even in case where the system provides regcomp_l(3), but it will never be used for anything. Fix the issue by improving our regcomp detection code. Instead of relying on a fragile listing of platforms, we can just use `CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS` instead. This will not in fact avoid the header-ordering problem. But we can assume that as soon as a system-provided "regex.h" header is provided, that `CHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS` will now correctly find the desired symbol and thus not include our bundled regex code.
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