[Dovecot] Installed include files

[Timo Sirainen]

Currently when using configure --enable-header-install and doing make
install the include files get installed to their own subdirectories,
like:

/usr/local/include/dovecot/src/lib/
/usr/local/include/dovecot/src/lib-mail/
..etc..

But using that is kind of annoying, because you have to give -I paths to
all of them with their full directories. The worst thing about that is
that it requires having some kind of a --with-dovecot=path configure
parameter. It would be nice if you could simply do:

CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/dovecot ./configure

Just like for any other include option. But that's not really possible.

One possible way to fix it would be to just install all the .h files to
a single directory, /usr/local/include/dovecot/ and make sure there
aren't any conflicts (there currently are a few). But whis would make it
more difficult to find out what files are related.

Another possibility would be to put the subdir paths to all #include
lines. Such as #include "lib-mail/mail-types.h" instead of just #include
"mail-types.h". This seems kind of annoying to use, but would it be
clearer? I'm not really sure.

Anyone have any thoughts?
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