Index: buildroot/toolchain/binutils/2.17/100-makeinfoautoconf.patch
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--- /dev/null	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ buildroot/toolchain/binutils/2.17/100-makeinfoautoconf.patch	2008-01-17 12:59:45.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -urN binutils-2.17.orig/configure binutils-2.17/configure
+--- binutils-2.17.orig/configure	2008-01-17 12:36:49.000000000 +0000
++++ binutils-2.17/configure	2008-01-17 12:56:20.000000000 +0000
+@@ -3637,7 +3637,7 @@
+     # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
+     # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
+     if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
+-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
++       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([6-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       :
+     else
+       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
+diff -urN binutils-2.17.orig/configure.in binutils-2.17/configure.in
+--- binutils-2.17.orig/configure.in	2008-01-17 12:36:49.000000000 +0000
++++ binutils-2.17/configure.in	2008-01-17 12:56:38.000000000 +0000
+@@ -2206,7 +2206,7 @@
+     # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
+     # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
+     if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
+-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
++       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([6-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       :
+     else
+       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"