Option to omit documentation at install

[ivmai]

Reported by @concatime (#27) : could you provide an option to install only shared libraries like here, it would be really useful for a lot of us.

[ivmai]

To @concatime: Could you please be more verbose: which configure option(s) do you need? you need to omit .h and doc files installation, right?

[concatime]

Well, for my script which install nginx and components, When It's time to install libatomic_ops, I need headers (with pkgconfig) and shared libraries since nginx use your awesome library. Like you see it here, it's a lot easier than manually copying file like here. Think about it, do I really need docs if I'm only using it as a part of something else ? Or easier since your library is not as big as jemalloc, offer us an option in ./configure like --no-docs. Don't omit .h files since nginx requires them.

[ivmai]

Ok, I will add "--disable-docs" to configure.

[concatime]

Awesome!

[ivmai]

Now it should work for you. Please test.

[concatime]

I'm lost. There is no configure file.

[concatime]

Well, looking into Travis, I was able to reproduce the steps. So, it seems to work perfectly.
The only thing that I would modify (and it's up to you), is the symlink:

libatomic_ops.so -> libatomic_ops.so.1.1.1
libatomic_ops.so.1 -> libatomic_ops.so.1.1.1

It would be better for reading if it was like this: libatomic_ops.so -> libatomic_ops.so.1; for a global result:
libatomic_ops.so -> libatomic_ops.so.1 -> libatomic_ops.so.1.1.1 (for libatomic_ops_gpl too).

[concatime]

Thus, /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3 is a fully-qualified soname, which ldconfig would set to be a symbolic link to some realname like /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.0. There should also be a linker name, /usr/lib/libreadline.so which could be a symbolic link referring to /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3.

Source.

[concatime]

Then, if the name change to libatomic_ops.so.1.1.2 for example, you would then modify only ibatomic_ops.so.1, and not ibatomic_ops.so. This is why I have/had this line.

[ivmai]

It would be better for reading of it was like this: libatomic_ops.so -> libatomic_ops.so.1

I agree. But I think this is the behavior of libtool.

[concatime]

Oh, ok, not a real issue. I'm waiting for a release to add --disable-docs into my script. Thank you.

[ivmai]

7.6.2 is released (https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/releases/tag/v7.6.2)