Index: BOOK/introduction/arm-chapter.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/introduction/arm-chapter.xml	(revision 576630a8ded46974fed544331bee7b20723f0dfa)
+++ BOOK/introduction/arm-chapter.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="arm/whatsnew.xml"/>
   -->
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/hostreqs.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/changelog.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/resources.xml"/>
Index: BOOK/introduction/common/hostreqs.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/introduction/common/hostreqs.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
+++ BOOK/introduction/common/hostreqs.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
@@ -0,0 +1,123 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
+  %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="hostreqs">
+  <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
+
+  <title>Host System Requirements</title>
+
+    <para>You should be able to build a CLFS system from just about any
+    recent Linux distrubtion. Your host system should have the following
+    software with the minimum versions indicated. Also note that many
+    distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in
+    the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or
+    <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
+    your distribution provides them.</para>
+
+  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-4.0</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.20</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.5</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-8.1</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-3.0</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.4.0</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.4</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.6</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.6</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.2.1</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sudo-1.7.4p4</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.23</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+    <listitem>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.13</emphasis></para>
+    </listitem>
+
+  </itemizedlist>
+
+  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
+<literal>#!/bin/bash
+
+# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
+
+bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
+echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
+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
+gawk --version | head -n1
+gcc --version | head -n1
+ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 \
+| cut -d ' ' -f 1-10
+grep --version | head -n1
+gzip --version | head -n1
+make --version | head -n1
+patch --version | head -n1
+sed --version | head -n1
+sudo -V | head -n1
+tar --version | head -n1
+makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>
+
+EOF
+
+bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect1>
Index: BOOK/introduction/mips-chapter.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/introduction/mips-chapter.xml	(revision 576630a8ded46974fed544331bee7b20723f0dfa)
+++ BOOK/introduction/mips-chapter.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="mips/whatsnew.xml"/>
   -->
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/hostreqs.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/changelog.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/resources.xml"/>
Index: BOOK/introduction/x86-chapter.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/introduction/x86-chapter.xml	(revision 576630a8ded46974fed544331bee7b20723f0dfa)
+++ BOOK/introduction/x86-chapter.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
@@ -18,4 +18,5 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="x86/whatsnew.xml"/>
   -->
+  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/hostreqs.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/changelog.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/resources.xml"/>
Index: OK/preface/common/hostreqs.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/preface/common/hostreqs.xml	(revision 576630a8ded46974fed544331bee7b20723f0dfa)
+++ 	(revision )
@@ -1,123 +1,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
-  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
-  %general-entities;
-]>
-
-<sect1 id="pre-hostreqs">
-  <?dbhtml filename="hostreqs.html"?>
-
-  <title>Host System Requirements</title>
-
-    <para>You should be able to build a CLFS system from just about any
-    recent Linux distrubtion. Your host system should have the following
-    software with the minimum versions indicated. Also note that many
-    distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in
-    the form of <quote>[package-name]-devel</quote> or
-    <quote>[package-name]-dev</quote>. Be sure to install those if
-    your distribution provides them.</para>
-
-  <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-4.0</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.20</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.5</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-8.1</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-3.0</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.4.0</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gawk-3.1</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">GCC-4.4</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.6</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.6</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.2.1</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sudo-1.7.4p4</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.23</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-    <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Texinfo-4.13</emphasis></para>
-    </listitem>
-
-  </itemizedlist>
-
-  <para>To see whether your host system has all the appropriate versions, run the following:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>cat &gt; version-check.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
-<literal>#!/bin/bash
-
-# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools
-
-bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4
-echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-
-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
-gawk --version | head -n1
-gcc --version | head -n1
-ldd $(which ${SHELL}) | grep libc.so | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | ${SHELL} | head -n 1 \
-| cut -d ' ' -f 1-10
-grep --version | head -n1
-gzip --version | head -n1
-make --version | head -n1
-patch --version | head -n1
-sed --version | head -n1
-sudo -V | head -n1
-tar --version | head -n1
-makeinfo --version | head -n1</literal>
-
-EOF
-
-bash version-check.sh</userinput></screen>
-
-</sect1>
Index: BOOK/preface/preface.xml
===================================================================
--- BOOK/preface/preface.xml	(revision 576630a8ded46974fed544331bee7b20723f0dfa)
+++ BOOK/preface/preface.xml	(revision c024635b81fcaec6b7ad7370191e05edc04a9b34)
@@ -15,5 +15,4 @@
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/audience.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/prerequisites.xml"/>
-  <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/hostreqs.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/typography.xml"/>
   <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="common/organization.xml"/>
