HP Caliper 5.3 for HP-UX Release Notes (5900-1559, February 2011)
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Operating System Requirements
HP-UX 11i v2 or later is required.
Hardware Requirements
HP Caliper is supported on the HP Integrity server family.
Software Requirements
Local Server for Linux/x86
The local HP Caliper server requires the following minimum library versions:
• glibc 2.3.3 or later
• libstd++ 3.3.3 or later
• libgcc 3.3.3 or later
Shared library version requirements for the local Caliper include:
• libstdc++.so.5
• libgcc_s.so.1
• libc.so.6.1
If your Linux distribution is relatively new, you need to insure that the above compatibility libraries
are installed to run the local server on your machine.
Java
Java version 1.5.0.03 is required if you want to attach HP Caliper to an application and enable
attribution of samples to JVM compiled methods at run time.
Java 1.5 is needed to run the HP Caliper GUI. Java 1.5 is also needed if you want to measure a
Java application on HP-UX with HP Caliper.
On Windows systems, download and install JDK 5.0 (latest update) from:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp
On Linux X86 and Itanium (64bit) systems, download and install JRockit 5.0 JDK Linux from:
http://commerce.bea.com/products/Weblogicjrockit/5.0/jr_50.jsp
Disk Space Requirements
The approximate disk space required for HP Caliper is 110 megabytes.
How to Install
To install HP Caliper, you run the SD-UX swinstall command, which will lead you through the
installation process. It also gives you information about disk space requirements, version numbers,
product descriptions, and dependencies.
You can install HP Caliper separately, or as part of the HP C/aC++ and HP Fortran products.
When you download HP Caliper from the Web, save the file in a convenient directory (for example,
/tmp).
Use the gunzip command to uncompress the file. (Your browser might automatically uncompress
the file. If it does, you can skip this step.)
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