diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 893aabedc..f9fd5e597 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,16 @@
     </listitem>
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>January 25, 2006</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6 patch.
+	  Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>January 25, 2006</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/patch.xml b/chapter06/patch.xml
index 9a77dd13f..2b277811f 100644
--- a/chapter06/patch.xml
+++ b/chapter06/patch.xml
@@ -30,11 +30,9 @@ GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
 <sect2 role="installation">
 <title>Installation of Patch</title>
 
-<para>Prepare Patch for compilation.  The preprocessor flag
-<parameter>-D_GNU_SOURCE</parameter> is only needed on the PowerPC
-platform. It can be left it out on other architectures:</para>
+<para>Prepare Patch for compilation.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS=-D_GNU_SOURCE ./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Compile the package:</para>