[WT-1739] Add an API to validate configuration strings. - MongoDB

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@michaelcahill, the MongoDB team asked for a way to validate configuration strings – here's one approach for your consideration.

I was torn between adding a WT_CONNECTION method, and another global, but eventually decided on the latter.

is depended on by

SERVER-17335 Add validation for WiredTiger index and collection options

SERVER-18270 WiredTiger changes for MongoDB 3.1.3

is related to

WT-1536 illegal huffman config panics LSM

WT-1755 validating configuration values

related to

WT-1036 Add a `wt config` utility

links to

WiredTiger GitHub branch #1739

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