Getting rid of *.la files once and for all

CRUX does not remove *.la files by default. I try to make my ports clean these up, but there are many others that still ship them. I have run into pretty silly problems because of them, so I decided to do something about it.
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Deal with missing *.la files on CRUX

Many programs started removing *.la files in the recent years. I will not discuss about them, but from what I have understood it is an obsolete system. This leads to problems, when a program would no longer build since it expects to find *.la files that are no longer there.
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