Re: Kernel make nconfig not showing whole menu anymore

[Milan P . Stanić]

Hi,

I can confirm that same happens on alpine linux.

On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 18:08, tuxway+ncurses@posteo.de wrote:
> Hello together,
> 
> after updating to the ncurses 6.3 patch 20220903 on Gentoo, I face the issue
> that running *make nconfig* on Kernel build results in a broken menu.
> 
> I now only see on line, e.g.:
> 
>  ┌── Linux/x86 6.0.0-rc6 Kernel Configuration ────────────────
>  │
>  │        Kernel hacking  --->
>  │
>  │
>  │
>  │
>  │
> 
> 
> When moving around the other entries will be visible one by one.
> Every submenu shows the same issue.
> 
> I checked the patch a bit and if I revert a change on the m_post.c (see diff
> at the end),
> the output works as before:
> 
> ┌── Linux/x86 6.0.0-rc6 Kernel Configuration ─────────────────
> │
> │        General setup  --->
> │    [*] 64-bit kernel
> │        Processor type and features  --->
> │    [*] Mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities  --->
> │        Power management and ACPI options  --->
> │        Bus options (PCI etc.)  --->
> │        Binary Emulations  --->
> 
> 
> I tested this with the Gentoo sources and the rc6 release of the Linux
> kernel.
> I also use the latest ncurses release on Gentoo
> (see 
> https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/sys-libs/ncurses/ncurses-6.3_p20220917-r1.ebuild).
> 
> If I use *make menuconfig* instead of *nconfig*, I don't see any issues at
> all.
> 
> I hope I've provided enough details.
> 
> Best regards and thanks for the time and effort!
> 
> Tuxway
> 
> ---
> 
> Diff which revert the change:
> 
> diff --git a/menu/m_post.c b/menu/m_post.c
> index 85da64b6..aa95277d 100644
> --- a/menu/m_post.c
> +++ b/menu/m_post.c
> @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ _nc_Draw_Menu(const MENU *menu)
>    ITEM *item = menu->items[0];
>    ITEM *lastvert;
>    ITEM *hitem;
> +       int y = 0;
>    chtype s_bkgd;
> 
>    assert(item && menu->win);
> @@ -218,7 +219,6 @@ _nc_Draw_Menu(const MENU *menu)
>      {
>        do
>         {
> -         int y = 0;
>           ITEM *lasthor;
> 
>           wmove(menu->win, y, 0);
>