menu 2.1.15 and fvwm 2.5.10-10 (failed to update-menus)

[Jimen Ching <jching@flex.com>]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this is the right ml for this report.  Appologies if its
not.

Anyway, there's a problem with the /etc/menu-methods/fvwm and
update-menus.  When I install an X app, the /etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook
isn't regenerated.  When I tried running update-menus manually, I got an
error about unexpected character.  I looked at the example in
/usr/share/doc/menu and compared it to the one in /etc/menu-methods, and
it seems the one in /etc uses '\' for multi-line statements and no ';' at
the end of a statement.  While the one in the examples directory doesn't
use '\' and uses ';' to terminate a statement.

So I edited /etc/menu-methods/fvwm to remove the '\' and add ';'.  Running
update-menus again didn't produce any errors and the resulting
/etc/X11/fvwm/menudefs.hook contained all of the X apps that I've
installed.  I don't know if it's /etc/menu-methods/fvwm, or install-menu
at fault.  But they seem to be incompatible.  The versions of the relevent
packages are listed in the subject line.

Let me know if anyone needs more information.

--jc
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Jimen Ching (WH6BRR)      jching@flex.com     wh6brr@uhm.ampr.org