David,

The most common cause for this is that you have not given PH capability to
the PERL account and PUB.PERL. Add PH capability and try it again.

Doug.

Doug Werth                             Beechglen Development Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Burney" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 13:22 PM
Subject: Perl Problem


> Hello everyone. I've installed Perl/iX from bixby.org.
> on a test box running 5.5 pp7.  The install apparently
> went off without a hitch. Yet when I do this :
>
> shell/iX>perl -e 'print "hello world\n"'
>
> I get this :
>
>
> **** EXEC FUNCTION FAILED; subsys =517; info = 48
> ABORT: PERL.PUB.PERL
> NM SYS   a.00a90288 dbg_abort_trace+$24
> NM UNKN  499.004d9f9c
> NM UNKN  a95.0004ac0c
> [1] + Done(134) perl -e 'print "hello world\n"'
>   11272682      Abort   perl
>
> Of course when I execute it on a HP9000 it works like
> a charm.
>
> Is this error due to the lack of the patch LBCJXT6A ?
> (To prevent Perl/iX from dying with an unresolved
> external reference to _getenv_libc).
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks !
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