put back the old uteams cleanup, leaks and all, to worry about post-release since my attempt to use DeleteGear was running into the fact that that procedure does way more than just delete a gear. might need an explicit cleanup routine for both to call.
LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
include $(CLEAR_VARS)
LOCAL_MODULE := SDL_ttf
LOCAL_CFLAGS := -I$(LOCAL_PATH)/../SDL/include
LOCAL_SRC_FILES := SDL_ttf.c
LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES := SDL
LOCAL_LDLIBS := -lz
include $(BUILD_SHARED_LIBRARY)