Merged parts of r8372 to jh branch from trunk

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/jh/BOOK@8384 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

prologue/hostreqs.xml

@@ -114,6 +114,11 @@
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
+    <!-- Needed by the apparently broken Binutils-2.18 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.8</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
   </itemizedlist>
 
   <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
@@ -139,7 +144,8 @@ cat /proc/version
 make --version | head -n1
 patch --version | head -n1
 sed --version | head -n1
-tar --version | head -n1</literal>
+tar --version | head -n1
+makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>
 
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