Tracy wrote:

> I'm experiencing weird troubles I've never seen before; maybe
> someone can shed light?  Running MPE 6.0 on a 937, I have a
> jobstream JCOBOL which compiles <parm>.src, tries to link
> standalone; if link fails with "no _start found", I make sure
> the XL exists, then try up to 10 times to add to it, running
> CLEANXL at each link (details are below).... [snipped]

You need to adjust your buildxl...

linkedit
HP Link Editor/iX (HP30315A.06.24) Copyright Hewlett-Packard Co 1986

LinkEd> help buildxl
 BUILDXL

 The BUILDXL command builds a new, empty, executable library.  This
 library becomes the current executable library until another XL or
 BUILDXL command is processed.

 SYNTAX

   BUILDXL xl_file [;LIMIT=max_modules] [;LIB=dependent_lib_list]

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