On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM B. Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > Any blackbox users here?
Not currently but I have used it a bit in the past and could see myself using it again or firing it up from time to time, so I figured, why not give it a try. > bbrun's maintainer just notified me he's abandoning the build. > > It's "old" software, hasn't been updated upstream in ages. But if > anyone still uses it, it's worth keeping in the repo. If someone wants > to step up as maintainer... anyone? I just tried it - it wouldn't build for me on -current without a further patch to deal with newer GCC's not liking multiple re-definitions of global variables without 'extern'. I got a lot of compiler warnings about trying to to' and fro' values between objects of incompatible size (ie, UB type code smells that might only work on 32-bit). I got it to run, but when I launched an xterm, my X server dead-locked and stopped responding and I had to go to a virtual console to kill bbrun. I'd vote in favour of dropping it. We do ship fluxbox which includes fbrun, so folks already have the option of using that instead of bbrun anyway. -Logan _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
