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Viktor Szakats 3058ed3df8
lib: use lib source directory as base include path
Backtrack on previous change that aimed to solve the wrong `share.h`
being included. It turns out it did not fix this issue. At the same time
it introduced relative header filenames and the need to include the same
headers differently depending on the source files' location, reducing
readability and editability.

Replace this method by re-adding curl's lib source directory to the
header path and addressing headers by the their full, relative name to
that base directory. Aligning with this method already used in src and
tests.

With these advantages:
- makes includes easier to read, recognize, grep, sort, write, and copy
  between sources,
- syncs the way these headers are included across curl components,
- avoids the ambiguity between system `schannel.h`, `rustls.h` vs.
  local headers using the same names in `lib/vtls`,
- silences clang-tidy `readability-duplicate-include` checker, which
  detects the above issue,
  Ref: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/readability/duplicate-include.html
- possibly silences TIOBE coding standard warnings:
  `6.10.2.a: Don't use relative paths in #include statements.`
- long shot: it works well with concatenated test sources, for
  clang-tidy-friendly custom unity builds. Ref: #20667

Slight downside: it's not enforced.

If there happens to be a collision between a local `lib/*.h` header and
a system one, the solution is to rename (possibly with its `.c`
counterpart) into the `curl_` namespace. This is also the method used by
curl in the past.

Also:
- curlx/inet_pton: reduce scope of an include.
- toolx/tool_time: apply this to an include, and update VS project
  files accordingly. Also dropping unnecessary lib/curlx header path.
- clang-tidy: enable `readability-duplicate-include`.

Follow-up to 3887069c66 #19676
Follow-up to 625f2c1644 #16991 #16949

Closes #20623
2026-02-23 16:00:42 +01:00
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.github cmake: add C++ integration test 2026-02-23 14:43:37 +01:00
CMake curl/curl.h: revert to recursive macros to keep supporting C++ use-case 2026-02-23 13:56:59 +01:00
docs URL-SYNTAX.md: fix port number mistakes for IMAP and LDAP 2026-02-23 00:01:18 +01:00
include cmake: add C++ integration test 2026-02-23 14:43:37 +01:00
lib lib: use lib source directory as base include path 2026-02-23 16:00:42 +01:00
LICENSES krb5: drop support for Kerberos FTP 2025-09-20 23:58:28 +02:00
m4 curl/curl.h: revert to recursive macros to keep supporting C++ use-case 2026-02-23 13:56:59 +01:00
projects lib: use lib source directory as base include path 2026-02-23 16:00:42 +01:00
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tests cmake: add C++ integration test 2026-02-23 14:43:37 +01:00
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.git-blame-ignore-revs copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
.gitattributes winbuild: MS-DOS batch tidy-ups 2024-07-02 19:26:15 +02:00
.gitignore build: drop the winbuild build system 2025-09-20 01:20:25 +02:00
.mailmap REUSE: add copyright header to two files 2025-11-03 16:08:52 +01:00
acinclude.m4 build: check MSG_NOSIGNAL directly, drop detection and interim macro 2026-02-11 14:51:08 +01:00
appveyor.sh CI: log downloaded file hashes, pin manually bumped ones 2026-02-05 03:20:46 +01:00
appveyor.yml CI: log downloaded file hashes, pin manually bumped ones 2026-02-05 03:20:46 +01:00
buildconf copyright: update all copyright lines and remove year ranges 2023-01-03 09:19:21 +01:00
CHANGES.md CHANGES: fix typo in filename 2026-01-01 12:20:10 +01:00
CMakeLists.txt cmake: force-disable unity for clang-tidied build targets only 2026-02-22 19:16:31 +01:00
configure.ac build: disable typecheck via the command-line instead of curl_config.h 2026-02-20 16:32:37 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: bump copyright year range to 1996 - 2026 2026-01-08 23:19:44 +01:00
curl-config.in autotools: tidy-up if expressions 2025-12-10 22:29:19 +01:00
Dockerfile Dockerfile: update debian:bookworm-slim Docker digest to 98f4b71 2026-02-05 17:36:44 +01:00
GIT-INFO.md REUSE: add copyright header to two files 2025-11-03 16:08:52 +01:00
libcurl.pc.in configure: do not echo most inherited LDFLAGS to config files 2024-11-14 09:55:45 +01:00
Makefile.am cmake: add C++ integration test 2026-02-23 14:43:37 +01:00
README BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 2026-01-26 08:26:28 +01:00
README.md README: add MQTTS 2026-02-05 22:55:01 +01:00
RELEASE-NOTES RELEASE-NOTES: synced 2026-02-20 23:06:43 +01:00
renovate.json renovate: merge two custom regex rules, escape dots 2026-01-23 15:58:16 +01:00
REUSE.toml REUSE: drop broken reference to MAIL-ETIQUETTE 2026-01-19 07:48:15 +01:00
SECURITY.md BUG-BOUNTY.md: we stop the bug-bounty end of Jan 2026 2026-01-26 08:26:28 +01:00

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