diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index a37fe72b9..2cdbe453d 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -88,6 +88,9 @@ First a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </itemizedlist>
 </listitem>
 
+<listitem><para>June 15th, 2005 [archaic]: Added --disable-nls to pass2 binutils
+to avoid requirement of gettext.</para></listitem>
+
 <listitem><para>June 14th, 2005 [archaic]: Removed --with-included-regex from
 chapter6's grep since it is less reliable than glibc's in non-C locales.</para></listitem>
 
diff --git a/chapter05/binutils-pass2.xml b/chapter05/binutils-pass2.xml
index 8ac747bb5..25624235b 100644
--- a/chapter05/binutils-pass2.xml
+++ b/chapter05/binutils-pass2.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ cd ../binutils-build</userinput></screen>
 <para>Prepare Binutils for compilation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>../binutils-&binutils-version;/configure --prefix=/tools \
-    --enable-shared --with-lib-path=/tools/lib</userinput></screen>
+    --disable-nls --enable-shared --with-lib-path=/tools/lib</userinput></screen>
 
 <para>The meaning of the new configure option:</para>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index ddce0d625..f80cb0765 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050614">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "June 14, 2005">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20050615">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "June 15, 2005">
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.2">
 
 <!ENTITY lfs-root "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">