configure: Use c++17

We need to move to c++17 to support std::variant usage in the sdbusplus
dependency.

Change-Id: Ifbc4ef9148cb2ac02f1a92bb49a57c9d5207b4d8
Signed-off-by: William A. Kennington III <wak@google.com>
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 690c2a1..caf360a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 AC_HEADER_STDC
 
 # Compiler flags
+AX_CXX_COMPILE_STDCXX([17], [noext])
 AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS([-fpic -Wall], [CFLAGS])
 AX_APPEND_COMPILE_FLAGS([-fpic -Wall], [CXXFLAGS])