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. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
