diff --git a/chapter02/hostreqs.xml b/chapter02/hostreqs.xml
index 4b069e0ad..cf49a7c96 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 96ac79463..a122ab702 100644
--- a/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
+++ b/chapter05/gcc-pass1.xml
@@ -140,11 +140,10 @@ 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 relevent 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>
 
diff --git a/chapter07/cleanup.xml b/chapter07/cleanup.xml
index b141b5bf0..ca6771455 100644
--- a/chapter07/cleanup.xml
+++ b/chapter07/cleanup.xml
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ tar -cJpf $HOME/lfs-temp-tools-&version;.tar.xz .</userinput></screen>
 <!-- Make the following look different so users don't blindly run the
      restore when they don't need to. -->
 
-    <warning><para>The following commands are extremly dangerous.  If
+    <warning><para>The following commands are extremely dangerous.  If
     you run <command>rm -rf ./*</command> as the root user and you
     do not change to the $LFS directory or the <envar>LFS</envar>
     environment variable is not set for the root user, it will destroy
diff --git a/chapter08/binutils.xml b/chapter08/binutils.xml
index 4d9cff910..6a5d43a2a 100644
--- a/chapter08/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter08/binutils.xml
@@ -190,8 +190,9 @@ cd       build</userinput></screen>
     <para>Test the results:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
-
+<!--
     <para>Four tests related to zlib are known to fail.</para>
+-->
 <!--
     <para>Seven gold tests are known to fail with gcc-11.1.0</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter08/shadow.xml b/chapter08/shadow.xml
index db6cbafd3..4fae11ede 100644
--- a/chapter08/shadow.xml
+++ b/chapter08/shadow.xml
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ find man -name Makefile.in -exec sed -i 's/passwd\.5 / /'   {} \;</userinput></s
 
 <screen><userinput remap="configure">touch /usr/bin/passwd
 ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc \
+            --disable-static  \
             --with-group-name-max-length=32</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
@@ -254,9 +255,7 @@ useradd -D --gid 999</userinput></screen>
         sg (link to newgrp), su, useradd, userdel, usermod,
         vigr (link to vipw), and vipw</seg>
         <seg>/etc/default</seg>
-        <!-- TODO: the static lib should be disabled by - -disable-static.
-             Keep it for now because of the rc freeze.  -->
-        <seg>libsubid.{a,so}</seg>
+        <seg>libsubid.so</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
 
diff --git a/chapter08/systemd.xml b/chapter08/systemd.xml
index 0f5830f1e..f7eaf6f89 100644
--- a/chapter08/systemd.xml
+++ b/chapter08/systemd.xml
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ rm -f /usr/bin/xsltproc</userinput></screen>
       <varlistentry id="systemd-creds">
         <term><command>systemd-creds</command></term>
         <listitem>
-          <para>Displays and processes credentials.</para>
+          <para>Displays and processes credentials</para>
           <indexterm zone="ch-system-systemd systemd-creds">
             <primary sortas="b-systemd-creds">systemd-creds</primary>
           </indexterm>
diff --git a/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml b/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
index bab18eb6d..085b983c5 100644
--- a/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
+++ b/chapter09/systemd-custom.xml
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ cp /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf /etc/tmpfiles.d</userinput></screen>
   <sect2>
     <title>Overriding Default Services Behavior</title>
 
-    <para>The parameters of a unit can be overriden by creating a directory
+    <para>The parameters of a unit can be overridden by creating a directory
     and a configuration file in <filename
     class="directory">/etc/systemd/system</filename>. For example:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter09/usage.xml b/chapter09/usage.xml
index ffb31055d..a723099e4 100644
--- a/chapter09/usage.xml
+++ b/chapter09/usage.xml
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ EOF</userinput></screen>
     at <ulink url="&hints-root;time.txt"/>. It explains issues such as
     time zones, UTC, and the <envar>TZ</envar> environment variable.</para>
 
-    <note><para>The CLOCKPARAMS and UTC paramaters may also be set
+    <note><para>The CLOCKPARAMS and UTC parameters may also be set
     in the <filename>/etc/sysconfig/rc.site</filename> file.</para></note>
 
   </sect2>
diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml
index 67d0b3b0e..a66141fc4 100644
--- a/prologue/why.xml
+++ b/prologue/why.xml
@@ -396,7 +396,7 @@
         <para>MarkupSafe</para>
 
         <para>This package is a Python module for processing strings in
-        HTML/XHTML/XML safely.  Jinja2 requires this pacakge.</para>
+        HTML/XHTML/XML safely.  Jinja2 requires this package.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>