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 ?? ??? 2000, Version 4.0.2
+- Make ext_skel create a Makefile.in set up to handle shared extension
+  support automatically (Rasmus)
 - Fix php_realpath not to die on non-existing files (needed for touch()) (Stas and china@thewrittenword.com)
 - Fix get_browser() function (Stas)
 - Fix symbol clash which caused a DSO problem on OpenBSD (Rob Black and