- From: Kelemen Zoltan <keli@kmdsz.ro>
- Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 16:49:29 +0300
- To: "www-validator@w3.org" <www-validator@w3.org>
Hi! I've finally managed to get my "home version" of the validator going, from the tarball you've provided on http://validator.w3.org/source/ I'd have a few notes about some of the issues ecountered: (I have a RedHat7.3 + Apache 2 + [all other stuff that's needed :) ]) Note to lazy people like myself :) : I had OpenSP installed without beeing avare of it - my home machine is completely offline, so it's used as a "playground" - It comes with the OpenJade package of RedHat, and puts onsgmls in /usr/bin. Unfortunateley, it's release 1.3.4 or something like that. As I mentioned before, without beeing avare that I've already had OpenSP, I've downloaded it and compiled it with default settings (had to fall back on gcc2.96 provided by RH, my install of gcc3.2.2 gave an error at ./configure saying that "can't get the size of size_t" (???)). - the downloaded version was of course 1.5. Then with more or less pain I've got the interface running (there are some _interestingly_ set up config files to say the least... If you'd expect me to put the whole validator in /usr/local [as is in the default validator.conf], then validator/httpd/conf/httpd.conf is all messed up. if check should be in the same directory as all the other html stuff (as implied by the "action" argment of the form in index.html, and the appropriate directives in the aformentioned httpd.conf), then why put it in a different dir? etc...) but all the results said "page not valid", but giving NO errors... solution? My install of OpenSP 1.5 got onsgmls in /usr/local/bin, but 'check' wasn't complaining since there actually _was_ a onsgmls executable in /usr/bin. I'd suggest changing the default setting in validator.conf to /usr/local/bin/onsgmls if the default compilation of OpenSP puts it there... Looking back seems like it wasn't as difficult, but It could be done to be a lot more easier with a little effort. (Make the config files consistent pleease [or somebody explain me, what did i've got wrong :) ]). Oh, and there should be at least a link pointing to the 0.6.0 branch of the cvs, not just instructions how to fetch the HEAD I myself only know the diffrence, because I've been reading through the archives :) - that was quite helpful too. sometimes you people give quite good and detailed descriptions in emails on installing. Would it take more than 5 minutes to get the same kind of explanations on a HTML page (and linked from http://validator.w3.org/source/)? Anyway: thank you everyone at the W3C Validator Team for the nice job (once one gets through the installation-bit :) best regards, Kelemen Zoltan ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
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