diff --git a/app-forensics/libwtcdb/libwtcdb-20170201.ebuild b/app-forensics/libwtcdb/libwtcdb-20170201.ebuild
index 2960d6a84..c104c04a2 100644
--- a/app-forensics/libwtcdb/libwtcdb-20170201.ebuild
+++ b/app-forensics/libwtcdb/libwtcdb-20170201.ebuild
@@ -51,3 +51,9 @@ src_configure() {
 		$(use_enable threads multi-threading-support) \
 
 }
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	# see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0303
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}