diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index aa9244fc1..e27bb8061 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -76,6 +76,9 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [winkie]: Modified Flex installation to only touch
+the flex.1 manual page, since that's the only one that exists.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter05 - hostreqs.  Provide clearer
 information regarding determining whether the host kernel is suitable for
 passing glibcs testsuite</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter05/flex.xml b/chapter05/flex.xml
index 064ae4b31..704d11526 100644
--- a/chapter05/flex.xml
+++ b/chapter05/flex.xml
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by
-the patch, and tries to update the man pages to include those changes, but this
-breaks on many systems, and the default pages are fine, so make sure they don't
+the previous patch, and tries to update the manual page accordingly, but this
+breaks on many systems, and the default page is fine, so make sure it doesn't
 get renegerated:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>touch doc/*.1</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter06/flex.xml b/chapter06/flex.xml
index 3291807f1..affbf7903 100644
--- a/chapter06/flex.xml
+++ b/chapter06/flex.xml
@@ -33,11 +33,12 @@ GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
 
 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../flex-&flex-version;-debian_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by the patch,
-and tries to update the man pages to include those changes, but this breaks on many
-systems, and the default pages are fine, so make sure they don't get renegerated:</para>
+<para>The GNU autotools detects that the Flex source code has been modified by
+the previous patch, and tries to update the manual page accordingly, but this
+breaks on many systems, and the default page is fine, so make sure it doesn't
+get renegerated:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>touch doc/*.1</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>touch doc/flex.1</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>Now prepare Flex for compilation:</para>