diff --git a/gc-7.1-dup_cpp_headers.patch b/gc-7.1-dup_cpp_headers.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9d6ea0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gc-7.1-dup_cpp_headers.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -up gc-7.1/include/include.am.dup_headers gc-7.1/include/include.am
+--- gc-7.1/include/include.am.dup_headers	2007-12-21 18:20:15.000000000 -0600
++++ gc-7.1/include/include.am	2009-07-18 20:34:58.812906860 -0500
+@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@ pkginclude_HEADERS += \
+ 	include/gc_typed.h \
+ 	include/gc_inline.h \
+ 	include/gc_mark.h \
+-	include/gc_cpp.h \
+ 	include/weakpointer.h \
+ 	include/new_gc_alloc.h \
+-	include/gc_allocator.h \
+ 	include/gc_backptr.h \
+ 	include/gc_gcj.h \
+ 	include/leak_detector.h \
diff --git a/gc.spec b/gc.spec
index f46ccf6..e3244e5 100644
--- a/gc.spec
+++ b/gc.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Summary: A garbage collector for C and C++
 Name:    gc	
 Version: 7.1
 
-Release: 7%{?dist}
+Release: 8%{?dist}
 Group:   System Environment/Libraries
 License: BSD
 Url:     http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/	
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 # To be more backward-compatible abi-wise, TODO: upstream ml reference
 Patch1: gc-7.1-gcinit.patch
 Patch3: gc-7.1-sparc.patch
+
+## upstreamable patches
+Patch50: gc-7.1-dup_cpp_headers.patch
+
 ## upstream patches
 # http://www.hpl.hp.com/hosted/linux/mail-archives/gc/2008-May/002206.html
 Patch100: gc-7.1-dont_add_byte.patch
@@ -49,6 +53,8 @@ Provides:  libgc-devel = %{version}-%{release}
 %endif
 %patch3 -p1 -b .sparc
 
+%patch50 -p1 -b .dup_cpp_headers
+
 %patch100 -p1 -b .dont_add_byte
 
 # refresh auto*/libtool to purge rpaths
@@ -115,6 +121,9 @@ rm -rf %{buildroot}
 
 
 %changelog
+* Sat Jul 16 2009 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org. - 7.1-8
+- FTBFS gc-7.1-7.fc11 (#511365)
+
 * Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 7.1-7
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild