common: compile libconfig as C++

As seen previously, make some global variables that need to be exported
non-const.

config_element_tracker_pid_target_legacy seems unused and clang gives an
unused warning. It was not exposed publicly, so I think it's safe to
remove it.

Change-Id: I6f9e7d77a7a04b02ae6585383c11389869b4a79a
Signed-off-by: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérémie Galarneau <jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>