diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
index eebe1d651d..056c94142b 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
@@ -131,6 +131,16 @@
     <filename>pkg-plist</filename>.</entry>
 </row>
 
+<row>
+  <entry><literal>desthack</literal></entry>
+
+  <entry>(none)</entry>
+
+  <entry>Changes the behavior of GNU configure to properly support
+    <varname>DESTDIR</varname> in case the original software does
+    not.</entry>
+</row>
+
 <row>
   <entry><literal>desktop-file-utils</literal></entry>