diff --git a/doc/devel/plugins.rst b/doc/devel/plugins.rst
index 5095e6dd54..76f5c75a68 100644
--- a/doc/devel/plugins.rst
+++ b/doc/devel/plugins.rst
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ called ``Demo::Rot13``.
 
 The ``init-plugin`` script puts a number of files in place. The full
 layout is described later. For now, all we need is
-``src/functions.bif``. It's initially empty, but we'll add our new bif
+``src/rot13.bif``. It's initially empty, but we'll add our new bif
 there as follows::
 
-    # cat scripts/functions.bif
+    # cat src/rot13.bif
     module CaesarCipher;
 
     function rot13%(s: string%) : string
@@ -73,17 +73,19 @@ there as follows::
             *p  = (*p - b + 13) % 26 + b;
             }
 
-        return new StringVal(new BroString(1, rot13, strlen(rot13)));
+        BroString* bs = new BroString(1, reinterpret_cast<byte_vec>(rot13),
+                                      strlen(rot13));
+        return new StringVal(bs);
         %}
 
 The syntax of this file is just like any other ``*.bif`` file; we
 won't go into it here.
 
 Now we can already compile our plugin, we just need to tell the
-Makefile put in place by ``init-plugin`` where the Bro source tree is
-located (Bro needs to have been built there first)::
+configure script put in place by ``init-plugin`` where the Bro source
+tree is located (Bro needs to have been built there first)::
 
-    # make BRO=/path/to/bro/dist
+    # ./configure --bro-dist=/path/to/bro/dist && make
     [... cmake output ...]
 
 Now our ``rot13-plugin`` directory has everything that it needs