diff --git a/appendices/dependencies.xml b/appendices/dependencies.xml
index 51fa55534..d1ea9c0bc 100644
--- a/appendices/dependencies.xml
+++ b/appendices/dependencies.xml
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@
         <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
 
         <seglistitem>
-         <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep,
+         <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Gperf,
          Make, and Sed</seg>
         </seglistitem>
       </segmentedlist>
diff --git a/chapter05/libstdc++.xml b/chapter05/libstdc++.xml
index d93f46bc5..9af130f4b 100644
--- a/chapter05/libstdc++.xml
+++ b/chapter05/libstdc++.xml
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--disable-libstdcxx-threads</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Since we have not built the thread C library, the C++
-          one cannot be built as well.</para>
+          <para>Since we have not yet built the C threads library, the C++
+          one cannot be built either.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
diff --git a/chapter05/linux-headers.xml b/chapter05/linux-headers.xml
index 395bf1cc1..36edc3c3d 100644
--- a/chapter05/linux-headers.xml
+++ b/chapter05/linux-headers.xml
@@ -48,8 +48,7 @@
     by way of sanitizing various C header files that are shipped in the Linux
     kernel source tarball.</para>
 
-    <para>Make sure there are no stale files and dependencies lying around
-    from previous activity:</para>
+    <para>Make sure there are no stale files embedded in the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">make mrproper</userinput></screen>