Add external_include_paths C++ feature

Projects with strict warnings level experience issues when they depend on third party libraries with less-strict warnings: The compiler will emit warnings for external sources. See #12009 for more.

This change optionally silences those warnings, by changing -I flags to -isystem flags and by adding -isystem flags for each -iquote flag, in case of external dependencies, i.e: those targets that come from a non-main workspace.

The new behavior can be enabled by --features=external_include_paths, otherwise there's no functional change.

The default flag_group in unix_cc_toolchain_config will silence warnings coming from -I and -iquote dirs in case of GCC, and -I for Clang. Clang will still produce warnings for -iquote dirs, therefore the Clang specific --system-header-prefix is recommended instead.

Closes #13107.

PiperOrigin-RevId: 366220384
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  2. examples/
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  6. third_party/
  7. tools/
  8. .bazelrc
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  11. AUTHORS
  12. BUILD
  13. CHANGELOG.md
  14. CODEBASE.md
  15. CODEOWNERS
  16. combine_distfiles.py
  17. combine_distfiles_to_tar.sh
  18. compile.sh
  19. CONTRIBUTING.md
  20. CONTRIBUTORS
  21. distdir.bzl
  22. distdir_deps.bzl
  23. ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md
  24. LICENSE
  25. README.md
  26. WORKSPACE
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