diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/check-locale-h.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/check-locale-h.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4d6660
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/check-locale-h.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+fix the macro check
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+configure does not check if locale.h exists, but check setlocale,
+if setlocale exist, the locale.h should exist.
+
+Signed-off-by: Roy Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
+---
+ lib/system.h |    2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/lib/system.h b/lib/system.h
+index 946eb3c..c70037b 100644
+--- a/lib/system.h
++++ b/lib/system.h
+@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ extern char *substring (const char *, const char *);
+ #include <ctype.h>
+ 
+ /* All systems nowadays probably have these functions, but ... */
+-#ifdef HAVE_LOCALE_H
++#ifdef HAVE_SETLOCALE
+ #include <locale.h>
+ #endif
+ #ifndef HAVE_SETLOCALE
+-- 
+1.7.10.4
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/do-compile-native-tools.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/do-compile-native-tools.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81ebe26
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/do-compile-native-tools.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+From 458e9450cecf703f55536e609365162719585900 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Roy.Li" <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
+Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:03:29 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] do not compile host tools, since we have native
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 23 +----------------------
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 22 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index b46130d..cf58654 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -90,28 +90,7 @@ AC_CANONICAL_BUILD
+ # $native_tools is also added to SUBDIRS in the main Makefile.am,
+ # so that make compiles the native tools first.
+ #
+-if test "$cross_compiling" = no; then
+-  native_tools=
+-else
+-  native_tools=tools
+-  test -d "$native_tools" || mkdir "$native_tools"
+-  confdir=`(cd "$srcdir";pwd)`
+-  # Make sure the secondary configure won't fail with
+-  # "error: source directory already configured".
+-  rm -f config.status
+-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([[Doing configure of native tools (${build}).]])
+-  cd "$native_tools" || exit 1
+-  # Run secondary configure in alternate environment or
+-  # it gets the wrong CC etc.  env -i gives this build host configure
+-  # a clean environment.
+-  env -i CC="${BUILD_CC}" AR="${BUILD_AR}" RANLIB="${BUILD_RANLIB}" \
+-      PATH="${PATH}" \
+-      tools_only=1 \
+-    ${confdir}/configure --build=${build} --host=${build} \
+-                         --disable-rpath --disable-nls
+-  cd .. || exit 1
+-  AC_MSG_NOTICE([[Continuing with main configure (${host}).]])
+-fi
++native_tools=
+ AC_SUBST(native_tools)
+ AM_CONDITIONAL(TOOLS_ONLY, [[test "x$tools_only" = x1]])
+ 
+-- 
+1.9.1
+
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/using-native-makeinfo.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/using-native-makeinfo.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2297051
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/texinfo/texinfo-4.8/using-native-makeinfo.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+From 9b0df7d6d3c18cfac82c291d60a5357d1bc8d9d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "Roy.Li" <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
+Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 17:10:03 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] using native makeinfo
+
+Upstream-Status: Pending
+
+Signed-off-by: Roy.Li <rongqing.li@windriver.com>
+---
+ doc/Makefile.am                                |   2 +-
+
+diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
+index 63df818..b6ceb34 100644
+--- a/doc/Makefile.am
++++ b/doc/Makefile.am
+@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ man_MANS = info.1 infokey.1 install-info.1 makeinfo.1 texindex.1 texi2dvi.1 \
+ 
+ # Use the programs built in our distribution, taking account of possible
+ # cross-compiling.
+-MAKEINFO = $(top_builddir)/$(native_tools)/makeinfo/makeinfo
++MAKEINFO = makeinfo
+ INSTALL_INFO = $(top_builddir)/$(native_tools)/util/install-info
+ 
+ TXI_XLATE = txi-cs.tex txi-de.tex txi-en.tex txi-es.tex txi-fr.tex \