Build against libstdc++-4.9 and supress one libstdc++ symbol so that we can run inside

old environments (CentOS, AWS Linux, AWS Lambda, etc)

src/util/glibc_workaround.cpp

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+#ifdef GLIBC_WORKAROUND
+#include <stdexcept>
+
+// https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/4042
+// allows building against libstdc++-dev-4.9 while avoiding
+// GLIBCXX_3.4.20 dep
+// This is needed because libstdc++ itself uses this API - its not
+// just an issue of your code using it, ughhh
+
+// Note: only necessary on Linux
+#ifdef __linux__
+#define _ENABLE_GLIBC_WORKAROUND
+#warning building with workaround
+#else
+#warning not building with workaround
+#endif
+
+#ifdef _ENABLE_GLIBC_WORKAROUND
+namespace std
+{
+
+void __throw_out_of_range_fmt(const char *, ...) __attribute__((__noreturn__));
+void __throw_out_of_range_fmt(const char *err, ...)
+{
+    // Safe and over-simplified version. Ignore the format and print it as-is.
+    __throw_out_of_range(err);
+}
+}
+#endif // _ENABLE_GLIBC_WORKAROUND
+
+#endif // GLIBC_WORKAROUND