diff --git a/handbook/porting.sgml b/handbook/porting.sgml
index f0d668b9ab..3436097a29 100644
--- a/handbook/porting.sgml
+++ b/handbook/porting.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.38 1996-11-11 06:50:44 asami Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.39 1996-11-17 00:25:26 obrien Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@@ -1182,10 +1182,13 @@ lib/libtcl.so.7.3
  
  [this section is for other standard bsd.port.mk variables that do not belong 
   to any of the above]
- [If it extracts to a directory other than ${DISTNAME}...]
- WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/xdvi-new
  [If it asks questions during configure, build, install...]
  IS_INTERACTIVE=	yes
+ [If it extracts to a directory other than ${DISTNAME}...]
+ WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/xdvi-new
+ [If the distributed patches were not made relative to ${WRKSRC}, you may need
+ to tweak this]
+ PATCH_DIST_STRIP=	-p1
  [If it requires a "configure" script generated by GNU autoconf to be run...]
  GNU_CONFIGURE= yes
  [If it requires GNU make, not /usr/bin/make, to build...]