diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 6c0cd043d..0a8d4952d 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,18 @@
     <listitem revision="sysv"> or <listitem revision="systemd"> as
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
     -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2020-07-07</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[pierre] - Make libelf install in /lib, since it may be
+          needed by iproute2 before /usr is mounted (report by
+          <ulink url="http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2020-July/073903.html">
+          Roger</ulink>).</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>2020-07-06</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter08/libelf.xml b/chapter08/libelf.xml
index 2ecf7fc58..bda3414cb 100644
--- a/chapter08/libelf.xml
+++ b/chapter08/libelf.xml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
     <para>Prepare Libelf for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-debuginfod</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-debuginfod --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make -C libelf install
 install -vm644 config/libelf.pc /usr/lib/pkgconfig
-rm /usr/lib/libelf.a</userinput></screen>
+rm /lib/libelf.a</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 362f9de7b..7977ce220 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20200706">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20200707">
 <!ENTITY short-version   "svn">  <!-- Used below in &blfs-book; 
                                       Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development"  or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
 
-<!ENTITY versiond        "20200706-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20200707-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 6th, 2020">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "July 7th, 2020">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2020"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->