diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3529de98f..ec957f76c 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ autogen_pages: indxal.htm
 # built manually in a survex build tree.
 indxal.htm: noinfo/CAVETAB2.CSV noinfo/all.pos noinfo/make-indxal4.pl noinfo/areapage_skeletons/*.html noinfo/lengths.dat
 	python noinfo/make-areaindices.py
-	-(cd noinfo && perl ./make-indxal4.pl -q CAVETAB2.CSV)
+	-(cd noinfo && perl ./make-indxal4.pl CAVETAB2.CSV)
 
 noinfo/lengths.dat:
 	-python noinfo/create_dplong_table.py || echo "Carry on and build other targets anyway"
diff --git a/noinfo/make-indxal4.pl b/noinfo/make-indxal4.pl
index 62219aa96..81e73f350 100755
--- a/noinfo/make-indxal4.pl
+++ b/noinfo/make-indxal4.pl
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ sub do_this_line {
        $path =~ s/\/$fn//g;
 
        # Make the directory that the file is in, in case it doesn't exist yet
-       #mkpath($path);
+       mkpath($path);
        # this is considered harmful now creation of directories is versioned - DL
 
        # Open the file and start writing to it