The texinfo in groff/doc is 2004-11-25.16, the version in Texlive 2008 is 2008-11-09.14
With the groff version I get:/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex:22: Undefined control
sequence.
l.22 \txisetlanguage
{USenglish}{2}{3}
Renaming texinfo.tex solved the problem.
Axel
