Hello Kalle and Marcus, So sorry, I had texinfo installed in /usr/local/bin, a home made version. So it was picking its version of install-info.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin# ls afile bpp chill g77 i386-gnu-gcc mco bdepend bprof cigloo gcc.new install-info.whatisthis protoize bigloo btags cigloo0.7 gcj jcf-dump texi2dvi bigloo2.1b c++ cpp gcjh jv-scan texindex bmake c++filt g++ gcov makeinfo unprotoize [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/bin# ./install-info.whatisthis --version install-info (GNU texinfo) 4.0 Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. There is NO warranty. You may redistribute this software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the files named COPYING. A quick rename fixed the "fault", and am back in business Chris

