Index: chapter01/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter01/changelog.xml	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ chapter01/changelog.xml	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -43,4 +43,14 @@
     appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
     -->
+
+    <listitem>
+      <itemizedlist>
+      <para>2020-09-27</para>
+        <listitem>
+           <para>[bdubbs] - Add autoconf-2.69-consolidated_fixes-1.patch
+           which allows autoconf tests to pass.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
Index: chapter01/whatsnew.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter01/whatsnew.xml	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ chapter01/whatsnew.xml	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -279,4 +279,8 @@
     <title>Added:</title>
     <listitem><para></para></listitem>  <!-- satisfy build -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>autoconf-2.69-consolidated_fixes-1.patch</para>
+    </listitem>
+
 
   </itemizedlist>
Index: chapter03/patches.xml
===================================================================
--- chapter03/patches.xml	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ chapter03/patches.xml	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -18,4 +18,12 @@
 
   <variablelist role="materials">
+
+    <varlistentry>
+      <term>Autoconf Consolidated Fixes Patch - <token>&autoconf-fixes-patch-size;</token>:</term>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>Download: <ulink url="&patches-root;&autoconf-fixes-patch;"/></para>
+        <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&autoconf-fixes-patch-md5;</literal></para>
+      </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
 
     <varlistentry>
Index: chapter08/autoconf.xml
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--- chapter08/autoconf.xml	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ chapter08/autoconf.xml	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@
     <title>Installation of Autoconf</title>
 
-    <para>First, fix a bug generated by Perl 5.28.</para>
+    <para>First, apply a patch fixes several problems that occur with the latest
+    perl, libtool, and bash version.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '361 s/{/\\{/' bin/autoscan.in</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&autoconf-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Autoconf for compilation:</para>
@@ -53,9 +54,10 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
 <!--
-    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>-->
     <para>The test suite is currently broken by bash-5 and libtool-2.4.3.
     To run the tests anyway, issue:</para>
-
+ -->
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 <!--
Index: general.ent
===================================================================
--- general.ent	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ general.ent	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20200915">
+<!ENTITY version         "SVN-20200927">
 <!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        "20200915-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond        "20200927-systemd">
 <!ENTITY short-versiond  "systemd">
 <!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd"> 
 
-<!ENTITY releasedate     "September 15th, 2020">
+<!ENTITY releasedate     "September 27th, 2020">
 
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate   "1999-2020"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
Index: patches.ent
===================================================================
--- patches.ent	(revision d6683983a56be96527aa9b22f149915cae9bc38e)
+++ patches.ent	(revision ec786b746e7ea3a38c1a2aa06724b6db3ad9f58a)
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@
 
 <!-- Start of Common Patches -->
+
+<!ENTITY autoconf-fixes-patch "autoconf-&autoconf-version;-consolidated_fixes-1.patch">
+<!ENTITY autoconf-fixes-patch-md5 "3c515415ecdd777990c91e8900279cb9">
+<!ENTITY autoconf-fixes-patch-size "3.8 KB">
 
 <!ENTITY bash-fixes-patch "bash-&bash-version;-upstream_fixes-1.patch">
