diff --git a/contrib/crossrpms/patches/binutils-2.18-rtems4.8-20071104.diff b/contrib/crossrpms/patches/binutils-2.18-rtems4.8-20071104.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8923ccb11e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/crossrpms/patches/binutils-2.18-rtems4.8-20071104.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+diff -uNr binutils-2.18.orig/configure binutils-2.18/configure
+--- binutils-2.18.orig/configure	2007-08-06 22:29:40.000000000 +0200
++++ binutils-2.18/configure	2007-11-04 10:15:52.000000000 +0100
+@@ -6128,7 +6128,7 @@
+     # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
+     # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
+     if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
+-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
++       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       :
+     else
+       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"
+diff -uNr binutils-2.18.orig/configure.ac binutils-2.18/configure.ac
+--- binutils-2.18.orig/configure.ac	2007-08-28 22:24:26.000000000 +0200
++++ binutils-2.18/configure.ac	2007-11-04 10:15:52.000000000 +0100
+@@ -2403,7 +2403,7 @@
+     # For an installed makeinfo, we require it to be from texinfo 4.4 or
+     # higher, else we use the "missing" dummy.
+     if ${MAKEINFO} --version \
+-       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*([1-3][0-9]|4\.[4-9]|[5-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
++       | egrep 'texinfo[^0-9]*(4\.([4-9]|[1-9][0-9])|[5-9]|[1-9][0-9])' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+       :
+     else
+       MAKEINFO="$MISSING makeinfo"