[Slackbuilds-users] bbrun needs a maintainer

[Logan Rathbone]

On Thu, Jul 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM B. Watson <urchlay at slackware.uk> 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