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--- www/Attic/porting.html	2004/07/15 16:18:22	1.48
+++ www/Attic/porting.html	2004/08/10 13:44:23	1.49
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@
        <code>/bin</code> to be searched <em>before</em>
        <code>/usr/local/bin</code> and <code>/usr/X11R6/bin</code>.
    <li>Do <em>NOT</em> generate shared libraries if
-       <code>${NO_SHARED_LIBS}</code> is defined (beware, it can be defined
+       <code>${NO_SHARED_LIBS}</code> is set to yes (beware, it can be defined
        only after inclusion of <code>bsd.port.mk</code>). If your port has
        a GNU configure simply add the line
        <code>CONFIGURE_ARGS += ${CONFIGURE_SHARED}</code> to the Makefile.
@@ -336,6 +336,11 @@
        <code>bsd.port.mk</code>, as people are supposed to update their
        whole ports tree, including <code>bsd.port.mk</code>.
        NEED_VERSION is now obsolete.
+   <li>Prefer using <code>update-plist</code> to generate and update 
+       packing-lists instead of doing things manually.
+       You can comment unwanted lines out.  
+       <code>update-plist</code> can detect most file types and copy most
+       extra annotations correctly.
    <li>In OpenBSD <code>curses.h/libcurses/libtermlib</code> are the
        ``new curses''.  Change:<br>
        <code>ncurses.h ==&gt; curses.h</code><br>
@@ -377,6 +382,6 @@
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   <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a> 
   <a href="mailto:www@openbsd.org">www@openbsd.org</a>
-<br><small>$OpenBSD: porting.html,v 1.48 2004/07/15 16:18:22 xsa Exp $</small>
+<br><small>$OpenBSD: porting.html,v 1.49 2004/08/10 13:44:23 espie Exp $</small>
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