diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
index e9a526f567..ccb24e870f 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/uses.xml
@@ -346,6 +346,16 @@
     variables to be set.</entry>
 </row>
 
+<row>
+  <entry><literal>ninja</literal></entry>
+
+  <entry>(none)</entry>
+
+  <entry>Uses <application>ninja</application> to build the port.  End
+    users can set <varname>NINJA_VERBOSE</varname> for verbose
+    output.</entry>
+</row>
+
 <row>
   <entry><literal>openal</literal></entry>