Running PA-RISC 1.x app on PA-RISC 2

[Clyde Mehornay Jr]

I have a need to run an older commercial application (that I suspect is written for PA-RISC 1.x), on a PA-RISC 2 system (HP-UX 10.20). The sources are not available and the application uses FlexLM, which complains about 'inconsistent' license keys.

Is there any way to get a C3000 (PA-RISC 2, HP-UX 10.20) to run this?

Thanks in advance.

[Santosh Nair_1]

That should be no problem...you can (and we routinely do) run PA 1.1 apps on PA 2.0.
You just can't do the reverse, i.e. run PA 2.0 apps on PA 1.1

-Santosh

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi,

In general the code will run without problems unless an imcompatible shared library clobbers you but that is rare. I suspect your real problem is Flexlm. You are trying to run with an invalid License.dat file because the lmhostid no longer matches. You will need to get a new license key or point to a node with a valid license.

[Clyde Mehornay Jr]

Sorry, I should've provided more information.

The application in question is available in both HP-UX and Solaris flavors. I have 3 licenses available on the HP-UX box, and one available on the Solaris box. Directing the HP-UX version to use either license file results in:

[frisco:mehornay] 45) /usr/probe/bin/probe
Checkout of "Probe" failed
client: Invalid license key (inconsistent license key) (-8,130)

But, directing the Solaris version to use the HP-UX license works successfully.

If the HP-UX license is actually invalid, then shouldn't it also fail on the Solaris reference?

Incidentally, this application has been 'retired' by its owner, so it is no longer supported. My feeling is that somewhere deep in the code, unfortunately in the licensing stuff, is something that works on PA-RISC 1.x but fails on PA-RISC 2.

Thanks in advance. (again).

[Hai Ying]

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