diff --git a/chapter08/libtool.xml b/chapter08/libtool.xml
index 4f387b6e8..20eff055b 100644
--- a/chapter08/libtool.xml
+++ b/chapter08/libtool.xml
@@ -52,13 +52,7 @@
 
 <para>To test the results<!--(about 11.0 SBU)-->, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Five tests are known to fail in the LFS build environment due
-    to a circular dependency, but these tests pass if rechecked after
-    automake has been installed.  Additionally, with grep-3.8 or newer,
-    two tests will trigger a warning for non-POSIX regular expressions and
-    fail.</para>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
diff --git a/chapter08/vim.xml b/chapter08/vim.xml
index 2ed5cf238..3da3bc4b6 100644
--- a/chapter08/vim.xml
+++ b/chapter08/vim.xml
@@ -64,9 +64,11 @@
 
     <para>To prepare the tests, ensure that user
     <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem> can write
-    to the source tree:</para>
+    to the source tree and exclude one file containing tests requiring
+    <command>curl</command> or <command>wget</command>:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">chown -R tester .
+sed '/test_glvs/d' -i src/testdir/Make_all.mak</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Now run the tests as user <systemitem
     class="username">tester</systemitem>:</para>