jloc0Sep 21, 2025
#slackware updated the “fmt” library which in turn broke my “waybar” package. There was no PR for fmt-12 support and I’d been waiting for one to appear but nothing yet. (Maybe I should issue a bug report). Alas, as is customary by now, I’ve made a “fmt-compat” package for waybar and added it to the “niriwm” repo for the time being. Considering making a compatibility package (maybe “aaa_lngn”) that would change depending on what Slackware breaks so there isn’t constant new packages to install… 🤔
Show threadmradcliffe

@jloc0 I was able to build waybar 0.14.0 after I built spdlog 1.15.3 using fmt 12.0.0.

I actually tried fmt-compat first (thank you!), but was not able to build waybar with that probably because my own spdlog package was too old.

I am not sure how stable it will be though, but it seems to be fine so far.

Sep 24, 2025 at 1:09pmWeb
Show threadjloc0Sep 24, 2025
@mradcliffe the compat package only provides the library so the waybar package in my repo will still run. In order to build it from source, you'd need to downgrade fmt back to 11 first. But yeah, my packages intent was just to keep waybar working. I didn't look at spdlog, I'll have to try playing with that myself, didn't think it would be coming into play here. 🤔