diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 4239ac293..e8792729b 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,19 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2012-08-27</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Add instructions to Chapter 5 glibc
+          to add rpc headers to the host system if they are missing.</para>
+        </listitem>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Apply upstream patches to make.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2012-08-26</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml
index 5f90ad46a..88fde346d 100644
--- a/chapter05/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,19 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Glibc</title>
 
+    <para>In some cases, particularly LFS 7.1, the rpc headers were not
+    installed properly.  Test to see if they are installed in the host system
+    and install if they are not:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">if [ ! -r /usr/include/rpc/types.h ]; then 
+  su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/include/rpc'
+  su -c 'cp -v sunrpc/rpc/*.h /usr/include/rpc'
+fi</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Fix an issue when building Glibc-&glibc-version; with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/ -lgcc_s//' Makeconfig</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>The Glibc documentation recommends building Glibc outside of the source
     directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
 
@@ -63,9 +76,6 @@ cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
   i?86) echo "CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native" &gt; configparms ;;
 esac</userinput></screen>
 -->
-    <para>Fix an issue when building Glibc-&glibc-version; with GCC-&gcc-version;:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's/ -lgcc_s//' ../glibc-&glibc-version;/Makeconfig</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Next, prepare Glibc for compilation:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index bedbcde0f..99911bc33 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -71,11 +71,11 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/vi_VN.TCVN/d' localedata/SUPPORTED</userinput></screen>
 -->
-
+<!--
     <para>Fix a bug that causes the build to fail:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i 's#&lt;rpc/types.h&gt;#"rpc/types.h"#' sunrpc/rpc_clntout.c</userinput></screen>
-
+-->
 <!--    <para>When running <command>make install</command>, a script called
     <filename>test-installation.pl</filename> performs a small sanity test on
     our newly installed Glibc. However, because our toolchain still points to
@@ -223,7 +223,8 @@ grep Error glibc-check-log</userinput></screen>
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install NIS and RPC related headers that are not installed by
-    default; these are required by several BLFS packages:</para>
+    default; these are required ito rebuild glibc and by several BLFS 
+    packages:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">cp -v ../glibc-&glibc-version;/sunrpc/rpc/*.h /usr/include/rpc
 cp -v ../glibc-&glibc-version;/sunrpc/rpcsvc/*.h /usr/include/rpcsvc
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index b0838923d..f88a606a9 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20120826">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "August 26, 2012">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20120827">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "August 27, 2012">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2012"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone "7.2">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->