diff --git a/wm/blackbox70/Makefile b/wm/blackbox70/Makefile
index 8d3248d0ff6c..09272e0a4d1c 100644
--- a/wm/blackbox70/Makefile
+++ b/wm/blackbox70/Makefile
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.18 2018/12/29 04:37:25 gutteridge Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.19 2019/01/19 21:21:04 gutteridge Exp $
 
-VERSION=	0.72
+VERSION=	0.74
 DISTNAME=	blackbox-${VERSION}
-PKGREVISION=	1
 PKGNAME=	blackbox70-${VERSION}
 CATEGORIES=	wm x11
 MASTER_SITES=	${MASTER_SITE_GITHUB:=bbidulock/}
@@ -12,6 +11,7 @@ GITHUB_TAG=	${VERSION}
 MAINTAINER=	pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org
 HOMEPAGE=	https://github.com/bbidulock/blackboxwm
 COMMENT=	Small and fast X11 window manager
+LICENSE=	mit
 
 CONFLICTS=	bsetroot-[0-9]*
 CONFLICTS+=	blackbox-[0-9]*
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ USE_LIBTOOL=	yes
 USE_TOOLS+=	autoconf automake autopoint gettext-m4 gsed pkg-config
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	YES
 
+CXXFLAGS.Linux+=	-fpermissive
+
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--enable-nls
 
 BROKEN_GETTEXT_DETECTION=yes
diff --git a/wm/blackbox70/distinfo b/wm/blackbox70/distinfo
index 9535f6a1a8ab..7cc8d35eccb4 100644
--- a/wm/blackbox70/distinfo
+++ b/wm/blackbox70/distinfo
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
-$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.12 2018/12/29 00:29:32 joerg Exp $
+$NetBSD: distinfo,v 1.13 2019/01/19 21:21:04 gutteridge Exp $
 
-SHA1 (blackbox-0.72.tar.gz) = 87e90c7d6da9f94a79100433490b33de4189f194
-RMD160 (blackbox-0.72.tar.gz) = 3991d8512703cceafcd93185978684441d06d7d7
-SHA512 (blackbox-0.72.tar.gz) = 8fffb8857240cfa11876c29dbb61dff3381b8e5b6f1937e14c81202d30b0cbc23135e42c6d8829c6e7ab7cdc821a1a62fee34db59da9b846634175442c5d7c1e
-Size (blackbox-0.72.tar.gz) = 360673 bytes
-SHA1 (patch-autogen.sh) = 28074bddfdfb4df2d78122f6bb8089522028ef23
+SHA1 (blackbox-0.74.tar.gz) = b252f052c590f092ae0e9c381c6c7e823fd83654
+RMD160 (blackbox-0.74.tar.gz) = 5c124739cbf1098341378c3bae1b7a461ec22dd4
+SHA512 (blackbox-0.74.tar.gz) = 7d67fe2fe6c0c2e9cd18d494fbba885ab7ca8c7aadcfe5ceada97c1280633b575f3f47a36dc5393c61ae0baf50eef61e56683899913fa58859148148e5041389
+Size (blackbox-0.74.tar.gz) = 395732 bytes
 SHA1 (patch-doc_fr__FR_Makefile.am) = 77fdac4d552af2ef0e8d43c5f6f8aeb0f8e20862
 SHA1 (patch-doc_ja__JP_Makefile.am) = e5dcdf4da59f805547cbf0cc9eb5d28468685e2b
 SHA1 (patch-doc_nl__NL_Makefile.am) = 951a4babc59a7a237cf662c7c3a2d2b865d9495b
diff --git a/wm/blackbox70/patches/patch-autogen.sh b/wm/blackbox70/patches/patch-autogen.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b0197851743..000000000000
--- a/wm/blackbox70/patches/patch-autogen.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-$NetBSD: patch-autogen.sh,v 1.1 2018/10/12 18:00:55 he Exp $
-
---- autogen.sh.orig	2016-07-10 16:31:38.000000000 +0000
-+++ autogen.sh
-@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
--#!/bin/bash
-+#!/bin/sh
- 
- cd "$(dirname "$0")"
-