[FEA]: Consolidate common configuration machinery
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### Area
General CCCL
### Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We have a lot of boilerplate code in all repositories that is frequently repeated. This includes things like detection of standard modes, available compiler features etc.
We have a chain of dependency libcu++ -> cub -> thrust
Do we want to pull out the common configuration code into a libcu++ header and maybe prefix it with `_CCCL_MEOW`
That way all our brittle macro workarounds would end up in a unique place where we could contain all that madness
### Describe the solution you'd like
I would prefer to have a single configuration header in libcu++ that acts as a source of truth for all configuration / helper macros
### Describe alternatives you've considered
We can happily continue to duplicate the necessary code. It is working after all
### Additional context
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