Subject: bug#3613: [PATCH] Allow trailing spaces and " -" in filenames for the compile output parser

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:13:29 +0200

> I actually have a lot of files that have " -" in the names, this patch
> fixes it for me.  If anyone understands this regex (I don't really,
> just kept changing it till it worked), can you see if the change breaks
> anything else?

Your change turns the (core of) regexp back to just ".*?" as it was in
the past.  We disallowed trailing spaces as well as " -" because they
lead to false positives in some cases.
There's no way to win in all cases, sadly.

        Stefan