[syslinux] No sub-menus in complex.c32

[Michael Madore]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:06 PM, Andrew Stuart <andrew at shopcusa.com> wrote:
>>> Can you try v3.11? I have a menu system based off of menu/simple.c that
>>> is working fine, other then some submenus get displayed in funky
>>> locations. I have avoided upgrading as some significant updates were
>>> made to the code, which I believe requires the use of Python / Templates
>>> to generate the menus [pre-compile]. (I don't know if this is true, I
>>> honestly haven't looked yet. It's on my todo list, but fairly low)
>>
>> v3.11 works.  I'll track down the version where it breaks and see if I
>> can figure out what changed.
>>
>> Mike
>
> Good to hear, Anything you can find would be appreciated. I will see if
> I can find some time and I will try my menu on 3.2 as well and see if I
> can help track it down as well.
>
> IIRC the menu/*.c system is currently unmaintained due to time
> constraints of the developer. I believe he has been looking for a new
> maintainer, but I don't recall seeing the position being filled.
>
> If you/we can track it to a specific change, I suspect he may be able to
> offer some insight, as he still seems to keep current on the list.
>
> (I may be wrong on the status.. I still haven't figured out how to cram
> more memory into my skull.)

I commented out the call to fix_submenus() in menu/libmenu/menu.c and
now my menu works.  This is with 3.20, so I still have to try with
3.63.  I haven't looked at fix_submenus() yet to see why it breaks
submenus.

Mike