diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.5.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.5.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 34596f30658..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.5.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-import ./common.nix {
-  version = "6.5";
-  sha256 = "0qjzvbvnv9003xdrcpi3jp7y68j4hq2ciw9frh2hghh698zlnxvp";
-}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.7.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.7.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7915d6e3c6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.7.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import ./common.nix {
+  version = "6.7";
+  sha256 = "1aicn1v3czqii08wc91jw089n1x3gfchkf808q2as59dak0h714q";
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
index ec51dc2259d..f0f4c269fae 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/common.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 # files.
 
 let
-  crossBuildTools = interactive && stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform;
+  crossBuildTools = stdenv.hostPlatform != stdenv.buildPlatform;
 in
 
 with stdenv.lib;
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     inherit sha256;
   };
 
-  patches = optional (version == "6.5") ./perl.patch
-    ++ optional crossBuildTools ./cross-tools-flags.patch;
+  patches = optional crossBuildTools ./cross-tools-flags.patch;
 
   # ncurses is required to build `makedoc'
   # this feature is introduced by the ./cross-tools-flags.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/perl.patch b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/perl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index e651b37371c..00000000000
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/texinfo/perl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-Adapted from http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/texinfo/
-Author: gavin
---- trunk/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm  2018-06-04 19:51:36 UTC (rev 8006)
-+++ trunk/tp/Texinfo/Parser.pm  2018-07-13 15:31:28 UTC (rev 8007)
-@@ -5531,11 +5531,11 @@
-     }
-   } elsif ($command eq 'clickstyle') {
-     # REMACRO
--    if ($line =~ /^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({})?\s*/) {
-+    if ($line =~ /^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)(\{\})?\s*/) {
-       $args = ['@'.$1];
-       $self->{'clickstyle'} = $1;
-       $remaining = $line;
--      $remaining =~ s/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)({})?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?//;
-+      $remaining =~ s/^\s+@([[:alnum:]][[:alnum:]\-]*)(\{\})?\s*(\@(c|comment)((\@|\s+).*)?)?//;
-       $has_comment = 1 if (defined($4));
-     } else {
-       $self->line_error (sprintf($self->__(
---- trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/xspara.c       2018-07-13 15:31:28 UTC (rev 8007)
-+++ trunk/tp/Texinfo/Convert/XSParagraph/xspara.c       2018-07-13 15:39:29 UTC (rev 8008)
-@@ -248,6 +248,11 @@
- 
-   dTHX;
- 
-+#if PERL_VERSION > 27 || (PERL_VERSION == 27 && PERL_SUBVERSION > 8)
-+  /* needed due to thread-safe locale handling in newer perls */
-+  switch_to_global_locale();
-+#endif
-+
-   if (setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8")
-       || setlocale (LC_CTYPE, "en_US.utf8"))
-     goto success;
-@@ -320,6 +325,10 @@
-     {
- success: ;
-       free (utf8_locale);
-+#if PERL_VERSION > 27 || (PERL_VERSION == 27 && PERL_SUBVERSION > 8)
-+      /* needed due to thread-safe locale handling in newer perls */
-+      sync_locale();
-+#endif
-       /*
-       fprintf (stderr, "tried to set LC_CTYPE to UTF-8.\n");
-       fprintf (stderr, "character encoding is: %s\n",
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 121abc8275f..f53438d01ca 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -11522,7 +11522,7 @@ in
   texinfo413 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/4.13a.nix { };
   texinfo4 = texinfo413;
   texinfo5 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/5.2.nix { };
-  texinfo6 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.5.nix { };
+  texinfo6 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/texinfo/6.7.nix { };
   texinfo = texinfo6;
   texinfoInteractive = appendToName "interactive" (
     texinfo.override { interactive = true; }