diff --git a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
index dc3073b33..1fb05af24 100644
--- a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
+++ b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.25</emphasis> (Versions
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.13.1</emphasis> (Versions
       greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
       not been tested)</para>
     </listitem>
@@ -39,10 +39,6 @@
       should be a link to bison or small script that executes bison)</para>
     </listitem>
 
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.4</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
     <listitem>
       <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-6.9</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
@@ -60,17 +56,12 @@
       should be a link to gawk)</para>
     </listitem>
 
-    <!-- glibc-2.30 requires gcc-6.2 or later -->
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-6.2</emphasis> including the C++
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.8</emphasis> including the C++
       compiler, <command>g++</command> (Versions greater than &gcc-version; are
-      not recommended as they have not been tested)</para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis> (Versions
-      greater than &glibc-version; are not recommended as they have
-      not been tested)</para>
+      not recommended as they have not been tested). C and C++ standard
+      libraries (with headers) must also be present so the C++ compiler can
+      build hosted programs</para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
@@ -180,7 +171,6 @@ else
   echo "yacc not found"
 fi
 
-bzip2 --version 2&gt;&amp;1 &lt; /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-
 echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2
 diff --version | head -n1
 find --version | head -n1
@@ -196,7 +186,6 @@ fi
 
 gcc --version | head -n1
 g++ --version | head -n1
-ldd --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-  # glibc version
 grep --version | head -n1
 gzip --version | head -n1
 cat /proc/version
diff --git a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
index 87dd9ab64..32ace456a 100644
--- a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
@@ -107,11 +107,10 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
         <term><parameter>--with-glibc-version=&glibc-version;</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This option specifies the version of glibc which will be
-          used on the target. It is not relevant to the minimum glibc
-          requirement specified in the
-          <xref linkend="ch-partitioning-hostreqs"/> because everything
-          compiled by pass1 gcc will run in the chroot environment,
-          which is isolated from glibc of the host distro.</para>
+          used on the target. It is not relevant to the libc of the host
+          distro because everything compiled by pass1 gcc will run in the
+          chroot environment, which is isolated from libc of the host
+          distro.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>