From 3d2001d026cc39241bb2bd0bcf7d4fe4617f816a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:35:18 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Also mention that ports should not really use the 199506
 value of BSD to distinguish amount versions of FreeBSD before and after the
 Lite2 merge.

---
 share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
index 877d7fc6c2b..f92b033644c 100644
--- a/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
+++ b/share/doc/handbook/porting.sgml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.64 1997/02/22 12:59:02 peter Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Id: porting.sgml,v 1.65 1997/02/22 18:30:03 obrien Exp $ -->
 <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project -->
 
 <sect1><heading>Porting an existing piece of free software<label id="porting"></heading>
@@ -90,7 +90,10 @@ the ports collection.
 	above).
 
 	The value of the BSD macro is 199506 for the 4.4BSD-Lite2 code
-	base.  However, few if any ports should need this.
+	base.  This is stated for informational purposes only.  It should
+	not be used to distinguish between version of FreeBSD based only
+	on 4.4-Lite vs. versions that have merged in changes from 4.4-Lite2.
+	The __FreeBSD__ macro should be used instead.
 
       <p>Use sparingly: