[Building Sakai] Build from source - which tomcat versions are allowed?

[Gregory Guthrie]

I just finished a new source build (Sakai 2.9, Tomcat 7.0.52), and got a few errors, and it indicates (correctly) that sitestats did not load properly (it does not work).
It looks like:   "STAT-339 - Sitestats does not load with Tomcat 7.0.35", but that is marked as fixed in JIRA.
I couldn't tell if the note about not using Tomcat above .21 was still valid since both issues listed were indicated as fixed, so I went ahead and used the current tomcat (.52), which apparently fails. What is the situation - does the tomcat version limit still apply?

(PS: on the "2.9 Install from source" page, for setting up the database for MySQL it says:
   " Click the "Configure" tab above for instructions on setting up Sakai to use MySQL or Oracle."
   But I see no such link/tab in the page - and had to go out and chat with Google to find that information.)
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INFO: Deploying web application archive /opt/sakai/apache-tomcat-7.0.52/webapps/sitestats-tool.war
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester endElement
SEVERE: End event threw exception
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
        at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor135.invoke(Unknown Source)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
        ...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The servlets named [sakai.sitestats] and [sakai.sitestats.admin] are both mapped to the url-pattern [/sitestats-tool/*] which is not permitted
        at org.apache.catalina.deploy.WebXml.addServletMapping(WebXml.java:292)
        ... 36 more

Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml
SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/sitestats-tool/WEB-INF/web.xml
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The servlets named [sakai.sitestats] and [sakai.sitestats.admin] are both mapped to the url-pattern [/sitestats-tool/*] which is not permitted
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2711)
        ...
        ... 30 more
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig parseWebXml
SEVERE: Occurred at line 71 column 23
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig configureStart
SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/sitestats-tool] startup failed due to previous errors
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:27 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
...
INFO: Server startup in 302988 ms
Feb 22, 2014 11:17:42 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader
INFO: Cookies: Invalid cookie. Value not a token or quoted value
 Note: further occurrences of Cookie errors will be logged at DEBUG level.
...
Feb 23, 2014 6:58:06 AM org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache tldScanJar
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.