[Slackbuilds-users] bbrun needs a maintainer

[B. Watson]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2026, Logan Rathbone wrote:

> 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'.

The fix for that for 15.0 was to add -fcommon to the flags. Surprised
to hear that doesn't work any more on -current...

> 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.

Yuck.

> 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.

Yeah, I agree, broken and nobody's interested enough to spend the
time fixing, including its original author. It shall go away.

For now I'll just orphan it, with "broken" in the commit message.

In the future, there's going to be a process in place to automatically
remove old orphaned builds from the repo, after they've been orphaned
for X amount of time (90 days maybe). There are some kinks to work out
(like, what if the orphaned build has a non-orphaned dependee?) but
it's definitely going to happen.