Port request: wdg-validate

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Sep 25 23:37:08 PDT 2008


You should file a ticket requesting these three ports.


On Sep 26, 2008, at 00:03, Michael Dexter wrote:

>
> Hello all,
>
> The maintainer of the lq-nsgmls package has posted a new MACH-friendly
> version, v. 1.3.4.14.
>
> http://htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/offline/index.html.en
>
> The software on this site is good to go for packaging, should  
> anyone be
> interested.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
>
> 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.




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