Port request: wdg-validate

[Michael Dexter]

Hello all,

I have a fix for building the WDG Offline HTMLHelp.com Validator on 10.4 
and 10.5. Might anyone be interested in building a port?

The project home page with dependencies is: 
http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/index.html.en


The port is named wdg-validate in NetBSD and I believe "validate" in 
OpenBSD:

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/www/wdg-validate/README.html
http://www.openbsd.org/3.4_packages/i386/validate-1.1.2.tgz-long.html

It requires three components:

The validate PERL script. Must be executable and in /usr/local/bin/

The wdg-sgml-lib library, as /usr/local/share/wdg/

The lq-nsgmls parser in /usr/local/bin/ which requires line 36 of the 
Makefile to be changed to:

XDEFINES=-DSP_HAVE_SOCKET -DSP_MUTEX_PTHREADS

... in order to build on 10.4 and 10.5.

I have asked the upstream maintainer to include this fix.

Thanks,

Michael.


Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 12, 2008, at 08:25, Michael Dexter wrote:
> 
>> I have tried to build wdg-validate on Mac OS 10.4 and it fails.
>> (http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/index.html.en) A port would
>> be greatly appreciated. Is anyone interested in porting this voluntarily
>> or if necessary as a bounty?
> 
> Well, the MacPorts project isn't about taking software that doesn't work 
> on Mac OS X and making it work on Mac OS X ("porting" it to Mac OS X). 
> Instead, it's about taking software which does work on Mac OS X and 
> making it easier to install. So if wdg-validate does not build on Mac OS 
> X, then you need to speak with the developers of wdg-validate to first 
> make it work on Mac OS X. Then a MacPorts port can be created for it.
>