Installing TOMCAT on AIX 7.1

Question

After installing a lot of packages I finally got ./configure to work, just to get a horrible message

Host support:- checking C flags dependant on host system type... failed configure: error: Unsupported operating system "aix7.1.0.0"

Versions: AIX 7.1 & TomCat 7.0.55 & JAVA 1.6

Any suggestions/ideas?

Answer 1

No need to make/build/compile. Just install tomcat then (vi etc/profile)

profile had following added on end:

• JDK_HOME=/usr/java6/jre;export JDK_HOME
• JAVA_HOME=/usr/java6;export JAVA_HOME
• CATALINA_HOME=/apps/tomcat;export CATALINA_HOME
• PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JDK_HOME:$JDK_HOME/bin:$CATALINA_HOME:$CATALINA_HOME/bin;export PATH

after that I did following 3 steps from command prompt:

1. $CATALINA_HOME
2. ./setclasspath.sh
3. ./startup.sh

I got the following output:

• Using CATALINA_BASE: /apps/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /apps/tomcat
• Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /apps/tomcat/temp
• Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java6
• Using CLASSPATH: /apps/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/apps/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
• Tomcat started.

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command --> catalina.sh version

• Using CATALINA_BASE: /apps/tomcat
• Using CATALINA_HOME: /apps/tomcat
• Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /apps/tomcat/temp
• Using JRE_HOME: /usr/java6
• Using CLASSPATH: /apps/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/apps/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
• Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.55
• Server built: Jul 18 2014 05:34:04
• Server number: 7.0.55.0
• OS Name: AIX
• OS Version: 7.1
• Architecture: ppc
• JVM Version: pap3260sr11-20120806_01 (SR11)
• JVM Vendor: IBM Corporation