installation fails if tomcat not installed

[Peter Baumann]

The self-compile documentation does not list tomcat as a mandatory prerequisite, and the commands provided do not list it. However, "make install" breaks if tomcat is not installed.

Solution: add tomcat to (checked) dependencies, document how to install.

[Dimitar Misev]

It would be useful if you post the errors you get when "make install" breaks.

Tomcat is listed here: ​http://doc.rasdaman.org/02_inst-guide.html#install-required-packages

And you must have consciously specified the -DWAR_DIR=/var/lib/tomcat/webapps when executing cmake, documented as "The path where Java war files should be installed."

[Dimitar Misev]

I think the right action here is to add a check in cmake:

if the path specified by -DWAR_DIR != the default, then check if the path exists and is writable.

[Peter Baumann]

sounds good, still documentation should mention tomcat.

[Dimitar Misev]

it does:

geo data support (optional):

    Tomcat (or another suitable servlet container) – required for running the 
    petascope and SECORE Java web applications

[Peter Baumann]

• geo data support: "…(optional)"
• documentation says "Make sure also that your user is a member of the tomcat or tomcat7 group", but it tomcat is not in the list of prerequisites at ​http://doc.rasdaman.org/02_inst-guide.html#install-required-packages
• "The path where Java war files should be installed." …why "should"? And again, this is not sufficiently explaining tomcat.

[Dimitar Misev]

Replying to pbaumann:

• geo data support: "…(optional)"

Yes it's optional dependency, when you compile rasdaman you can configure so that petascope doesn't get compiled at all.

• documentation says "Make sure also that your user is a member of the tomcat or tomcat7 group", but it tomcat is not in the list of prerequisites at ​http://doc.rasdaman.org/02_inst-guide.html#install-required-packages

Good point, this should be reworded to account for the optionality of tomcat.

• "The path where Java war files should be installed." …why "should"? And again, this is not sufficiently explaining tomcat.

What's wrong with "should" here?

Tomcat is not a required dependency, these war files can run standalone as well without any Tomcat: ​http://doc.rasdaman.org/05_geo-services-guide.html#standalone-deployment