On Wed, 27 Aug 1997 18:31:44 +0200, Reiner Hutsch <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >i have some difficulties with perl 5.003. i used it before without >problems. But since a few days i receive the following error message: > ...snip >shell/iX:/SYS/PUB> perl -v > = > >**** EXEC FUNCTION FAILED; subsys =3D517; info =3D 48 = > >ABORT: /perl/perl = > >NM SYS a.00a82288 dbg_abort_trace+$24 >NM UNKN 159.0033ef6c = > >NM UNKN 884.0004bbd8 = ...snip >May be that i purged some file (but i reinstalled PERL in the meantime). >Does anybody know, which program PERL is going to EXEC? > As far as I know perl doesn't exec another program, the problem is probably in your perl e xecutable. Did you reinstall perl by recompiling/linking? if so it's possible you forgot to link in some objectfiles, of which you won't get any notice until you try to run it. Hope this helps.