diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index f45d23b2ef..e7770726df 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "10">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "11">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2019">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index af73edd976..1393fc5363 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@
       </itemizedlist>
     </listitem>
        -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>December 11th, 2019</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[ken] - Work around upstream qtwebengine's use of a
+          NINJAJOBS environment variable, reported by Alain Dumont.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
       <para>December 10th, 2019</para>
diff --git a/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml b/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml
index 7381fe0103..bb620ac350 100644
--- a/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml
+++ b/x/lib/qtwebengine.xml
@@ -198,6 +198,18 @@ followed by a comment, the second lacks the ';' -->
 <screen><userinput>sed -i '5713s/.*/&amp;;/' \
   src/3rdparty/chromium/third_party/blink/renderer/core/dom/document.cc</userinput></screen>
 
+    <para>
+      Finally, fix a change in the build system which allows its developers to
+      pass e.g. -j20 to make (for quick tests of some areas) but breaks the
+      build with LFS's use of the NINJAJOBS environment variable:
+    </para>
+
+<!-- editors: See thread at
+http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2019-December/036996.html
+et.seq, particularly 037002.html which shows the commit near the end. -->
+
+<screen><userinput>sed -i 's/NINJAJOBS/NINJA_JOBS/' src/core/gn_run.pro</userinput></screen>
+
     <para>
       If an older version of the package's main library has been installed,
       when the package is built separately it will link to that in preference