diff --git a/devel/libftdi/Makefile b/devel/libftdi/Makefile
index c9faf0e14d3f..206d7358ebba 100644
--- a/devel/libftdi/Makefile
+++ b/devel/libftdi/Makefile
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@
 #
 
 PORTNAME=	libftdi
-PORTVERSION=	0.17
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTVERSION=	0.18
 CATEGORIES=	devel
 MASTER_SITES=	http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/
 
diff --git a/devel/libftdi/distinfo b/devel/libftdi/distinfo
index 877fb6f5c58b..1a3c5b544348 100644
--- a/devel/libftdi/distinfo
+++ b/devel/libftdi/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
-MD5 (libftdi-0.17.tar.gz) = 810c69cfaa078b49795c224ef9b6b851
-SHA256 (libftdi-0.17.tar.gz) = d5c0275125ab68a431375083c9544899e578b8f98b83de1254386d0209feabf0
-SIZE (libftdi-0.17.tar.gz) = 435901
+SHA256 (libftdi-0.18.tar.gz) = 5b6f3c3ee51c6aa24d3b87135e01762cf68821d1c3599d87d349fea4ede74c62
+SIZE (libftdi-0.18.tar.gz) = 398380
diff --git a/devel/libftdi/files/extra-patch-configure.in b/devel/libftdi/files/extra-patch-configure.in
index d3a8a6f6635c..c292da005de5 100644
--- a/devel/libftdi/files/extra-patch-configure.in
+++ b/devel/libftdi/files/extra-patch-configure.in
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
---- configure.in.orig	2009-03-07 20:14:41.000000000 +0300
-+++ configure.in	2009-03-07 20:15:29.000000000 +0300
+--- configure.in.orig	2011-02-28 15:03:24.000000000 +0200
++++ configure.in	2011-02-28 15:04:24.000000000 +0200
 @@ -7,30 +7,7 @@
- AC_PROG_CC
  AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
+ AC_PROG_CXX
  
 -dnl check for libusb-config
--AC_PATH_PROG(HAVELIBUSB, libusb-config, $PATH)
+-AC_CHECK_TOOL(HAVELIBUSB, libusb-config)
 -
 -if test ! -z "$HAVELIBUSB"; then
 -   LIBUSB_CFLAGS=`$HAVELIBUSB --cflags`
diff --git a/devel/libftdi/pkg-plist b/devel/libftdi/pkg-plist
index be30d54d0882..2362fb28d0b2 100644
--- a/devel/libftdi/pkg-plist
+++ b/devel/libftdi/pkg-plist
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ include/ftdi.h
 lib/libftdi.a
 lib/libftdi.la
 lib/libftdi.so
-lib/libftdi.so.18
+lib/libftdi.so.19
 %%BOOST%%lib/libftdipp.a
 %%BOOST%%lib/libftdipp.la
 %%BOOST%%lib/libftdipp.so