Use relative paths in links in docs. This change fixes links among Bazel docs to use relative paths links instead of absolute path (either full URL or absolute from site root). This way, versioned documentation will link to other pages within the same versioned directory rather than to the site root, which will point to the latest version of the page from HEAD. Future improvements may include adding a lint tool to check links in documentation to ensure that the correct convention is followed such that all links to pages within a version of the docs will point to pages within the same version. RELNOTES: None PiperOrigin-RevId: 160117865
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