diff --git a/astro/jday/Makefile b/astro/jday/Makefile
index bc16580c287..9e94dbb0444 100644
--- a/astro/jday/Makefile
+++ b/astro/jday/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.9 2004/11/21 12:50:33 espie Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2006/11/02 21:30:57 naddy Exp $
 
 COMMENT=	"astronomical julian date calculator"
 
-DISTNAME=	jday-1.3
+DISTNAME=	jday-2.4
+SHARED_LIBS +=  jday                 0.0      # .2.4
 CATEGORIES=	astro
 HOMEPAGE=	http://jday.sourceforge.net/
 
@@ -11,13 +12,14 @@ PERMIT_PACKAGE_CDROM=	Yes
 PERMIT_PACKAGE_FTP=	Yes
 PERMIT_DISTFILES_CDROM=	Yes
 PERMIT_DISTFILES_FTP=	Yes
-WANTLIB=		c
 
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_SOURCEFORGE:=jday/}
 
-CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu
+WANTLIB=	c
 
-do-regress:
-	@cd ${WRKSRC}; ./RunTest
+SEPARATE_BUILD=	simple
+USE_LIBTOOL=	Yes
+CONFIGURE_STYLE=gnu
+CONFIGURE_ARGS=	${CONFIGURE_SHARED}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/astro/jday/distinfo b/astro/jday/distinfo
index 89392c9106f..2894499c0f5 100644
--- a/astro/jday/distinfo
+++ b/astro/jday/distinfo
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-MD5 (jday-1.3.tar.gz) = 4b6e8e4c9322a50322e0eebf86cb32f4
-RMD160 (jday-1.3.tar.gz) = 26773f0b741a087a9a2a638ae26ccfcb09b1e4d7
-SHA1 (jday-1.3.tar.gz) = 21b2992944a811f743528a01b9fd6d9dc50dbc07
-SIZE (jday-1.3.tar.gz) = 211601
+MD5 (jday-2.4.tar.gz) = 817af56005d1346677271ed2fab63ef5
+RMD160 (jday-2.4.tar.gz) = f69d7b5f00fc3fc9ebb7fe7fb0d3c0d1dcdc0927
+SHA1 (jday-2.4.tar.gz) = 46b020ef315eb21b3b0e5192693687ef286cf2e1
+SIZE (jday-2.4.tar.gz) = 337012
diff --git a/astro/jday/patches/patch-jday_c b/astro/jday/patches/patch-jday_c
deleted file mode 100644
index 7d9b4e03e6a..00000000000
--- a/astro/jday/patches/patch-jday_c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-$OpenBSD: patch-jday_c,v 1.1 2002/12/30 16:26:17 naddy Exp $
---- jday.c.orig	Mon Dec 30 17:07:26 2002
-+++ jday.c	Mon Dec 30 17:07:36 2002
-@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ char * argv[];
- 				if ( day < 1 ) day = 1;
- 			case 3:
- 		if ( ! strcmp((const char *)argv[1], (const char *) "-d") ) {
--	if ( 3 != sscanf( argv[2], "%d/%d/%d", & year, & mo, & day ) ) {
-+	if ( 3 != sscanf( argv[2], "%ld/%d/%d", & year, & mo, & day ) ) {
- fprintf( stderr, "failed sscanf for ymd\n" );
- 		exit (-1);
- 	} else {
diff --git a/astro/jday/pkg/DESCR b/astro/jday/pkg/DESCR
index d886afcddf7..48e6191864f 100644
--- a/astro/jday/pkg/DESCR
+++ b/astro/jday/pkg/DESCR
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 jday and j2d are command line utilities to convert calendar dates
 to astronomical julian dates, and julian dates to calendar dates.
-There is a corresponding library libjday.a which can be used for
+There is a corresponding library, libjday, which can be used for
 the same functionality within applications.
diff --git a/astro/jday/pkg/PFRAG.shared b/astro/jday/pkg/PFRAG.shared
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3346b652d6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/astro/jday/pkg/PFRAG.shared
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+@comment $OpenBSD: PFRAG.shared,v 1.1 2006/11/02 21:30:57 naddy Exp $
+@lib lib/libjday.so.${LIBjday_VERSION}
diff --git a/astro/jday/pkg/PLIST b/astro/jday/pkg/PLIST
index 742252ed449..5638cadd26b 100644
--- a/astro/jday/pkg/PLIST
+++ b/astro/jday/pkg/PLIST
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
-@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.3 2004/08/03 11:32:04 espie Exp $
+@comment $OpenBSD: PLIST,v 1.4 2006/11/02 21:30:57 naddy Exp $
+%%SHARED%%
 bin/dbd
 bin/j2d
 bin/jday
 include/jday.h
 lib/libjday.a
+lib/libjday.la
+lib/pkgconfig/
+lib/pkgconfig/jday.pc
 @man man/man1/jday.1