diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 85fb303..e7705a7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 autoconf-2.66.tar.xz
 /autoconf-2.68.tar.xz
+/autoconf-2.69.tar.xz
diff --git a/autoconf.spec b/autoconf.spec
index 5cdad02..bd80199 100644
--- a/autoconf.spec
+++ b/autoconf.spec
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 Summary:    A GNU tool for automatically configuring source code
 Name:       autoconf
-Version:    2.68
-Release:    3%{?dist}
+Version:    2.69
+Release:    1%{?dist}
 License:    GPLv2+ and GFDL
 Group:      Development/Tools
 Source:     http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/autoconf/autoconf-%{version}.tar.xz
-Patch0:     autoconf-2.68-selfcheckfailure.patch
 URL:        http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/
 BuildArch: noarch
 BuildRoot:  %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ BuildRequires:      m4 >= 1.4.14
 Requires:           m4 >= 1.4.14
 BuildRequires:      emacs
 # the filtering macros are currently in /etc/rpm/macros.perl:
-BuildRequires:      perl-devel
+BuildRequires:      perl-devel >= 5.6
 Requires(post):     /sbin/install-info
 Requires(preun):    /sbin/install-info
 
@@ -23,10 +22,7 @@ Requires(preun):    /sbin/install-info
 %{?_without_check: %define _without_check 1}
 %{!?_without_check: %define _without_check 0}
 %if ! %{_without_check}
-BuildRequires: automake libtool gcc-gfortran
-%if 0%{?fedora}
-BuildRequires: erlang
-%endif
+BuildRequires: automake
 %endif
 
 # filter out bogus perl(Autom4te*) dependencies
@@ -55,7 +51,6 @@ their use.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
-%patch0 -p 1 -b .selfcheckfailure
 
 %build
 %configure
@@ -101,6 +96,9 @@ fi
 %doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO
 
 %changelog
+* Tue May 15 2012 Karsten Hopp <karsten@redhat.com> 2.69-1
+- update to 2.69
+
 * Thu Jan 12 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 2.68-3
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index fa5812c..10de071 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-723677f7727542d273112e7feb870a7a  autoconf-2.68.tar.xz
+50f97f4159805e374639a73e2636f22e  autoconf-2.69.tar.xz