libtool, not installing .la files?

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Christian Weisgerber wrote:

>What are the current hacks to avoid installing .la files?
>
>My libogg and libvorbis ports used to not install .la files.  Now
>I'm getting mail from kris' scripts that the libogg port misses
>libogg.la from its plist.  Wondering why I get no report for
>libvorbis, I checked that port only to see that kris has already
>added the .la files to the plist there.
>
>Apparently the libtool changes in recent months have changed things,
>but in between USE_LIBTOOL_VER, USE_INC_LIBTOOL_VER, and USE_GNOME=lthack
>I'm lost.  What's the proper way to deal with a port that uses
>libtool to build its libraries?  How to skip .la?
>
>Is this documented anywhere?
>
>  
>
Check ports/Mk/bsd.autotools.mk. Ports version of libttol skips .la 
files instalation. Therefore looks like you just need to axe INC word.

All the best,
Alexander.