diff -Nur binutils-2.17.old/configure binutils-2.17/configure
--- binutils-2.17.old/configure	2007-10-15 14:31:39 +0200
+++ binutils-2.17/configure	2007-10-15 15:32:59 +0200
@@ -3642,7 +3642,7 @@
     # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
     # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
     if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       :
     else
       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
diff -Nur binutils-2.17.old/configure.in binutils-2.17/configure.in
--- binutils-2.17.old/configure.in	2007-10-15 14:31:39 +0200
+++ binutils-2.17/configure.in	2007-10-15 15:28:31 +0200
@@ -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 ${MAKEINFO} --version \
-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
       :
     else
       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"