Due to some android peculiarities, in some build configurations
(statically linked executables targeting older release) we could detect
the presence of these functions (because they are present in libc.a,
where check_library_exists searches), but then fail to build because the
headers did not include the definition.
This attempts to remedy that by upgrading the check_library_exists to
check_symbol_exists, which will check that the function is declared too.
I am hoping that a more thorough check will make the messy #ifdef we
have accumulated in the code obsolete, so I optimistically try to remove
it.