diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index ff709e4dd..27500d91d 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2012-06-05</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+         <listitem>
+           <para>[matthew] - Remove a couple of sed commands from Binutils'
+           instructions, as the tests have been fixed upstream. Thanks to Waleed
+           Hamra for the report.</para>
+         </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-3.4.1.  Fixes
            <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;3110">#3110</ulink>.</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/binutils.xml b/chapter06/binutils.xml
index 0b044b108..28144969d 100644
--- a/chapter06/binutils.xml
+++ b/chapter06/binutils.xml
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@ Ask your system administrator to create more.</computeroutput></screen>
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">rm -fv etc/standards.info
 sed -i.bak '/^INFO/s/standards.info //' etc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Fix a couple of the tests, which fail when using GCC-&gcc-version;</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i "/exception_defines.h/d" ld/testsuite/ld-elf/new.cc
-sed -i "s/-fvtable-gc //" ld/testsuite/ld-selective/selective.exp</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Apply a patch to prevent a build failure when using compiler optimizations:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../&binutils-build-patch;</userinput></screen>