I think the trick for testing individual features is that it does not
depend on symbols predefined by the compiler.   Rather, tools
are used to generate a configure script, which in turn generates
the Makefiles from prototypes, with suitable -D_has_feature_a -D_has_feature_b
etc arguments (where feature_a and feature_b are just examples, of course).

Typically that would be GNU autoconf and automake, I think.  Don't ask
_me_ how to set all that up from scratch, please; I've never tried.  But enough
free software builds (even on Solaris) with
./configure
make
make install

that a lot of people must have figured it out already.
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