conda/conda — pull request #527 by peter1000 (2014-01-23 14:37:56+00:00)
Title: * add ability to export autoremove .la files

https://github.com/conda/conda-build/issues/16
auto-remove linux .la files

This is the conda counter part: https://github.com/conda/conda-build/pull/17

if one builds more apps **within the conda framework** like gmp, mpfr, gcc, glibc and the whole essential development apps one might run into a number of issues
one of them might be: .la

example of conda build gmp .la

libgmp.la

```
...
...

# Directory that this library needs to be installed in:
libdir='/opt/anaconda1anaconda2anaconda3/lib'
```

one can read more for instance here: http://www.metastatic.org/text/libtool.html

to avoid removing them individually I did a small function in conda-build