zonking .la and .a files

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

greetings libtool and automake folks,

is there any way to tell libtool/automake NOT to install .la and .a
files?  i would like to install only the shared object libraries as
"plugin modules" (the main program knows of the plugin modules location
and can dlopen them directly w/o search; there is no requirement for
linking against the module in the future).

here's a kludge i came up w/ that works but seems inelegant:

  my_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la
  libfoo_la_SOURCES = foo.c
  libfoo_la_LDFLAGS = -version-info 0:0 -export-dynamic -module
  
  install-exec-hook:
        rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(mydir)/libfoo.la
        rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(mydir)/libfoo.a

thanks for any insight into this problem.  fwiw, i'm using libtool 1.4.3
and automake 1.7.6.

thi