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#3965
23.1.50; compilation-mode gnu error regexp mismatching ant, irix, gcc-include
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Reported by: Kevin Ryde <user42 <at> zip.com.au>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:20:05 UTC
Severity: normal
Tags: notabug, wontfix
Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
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> Doing
>
> (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist '(gnu))
>
> and visiting etc/compilation.txt shows some mismatched parts.
>
> Under "ant" ...
> Under "irix"...
> And under "gcc-include"...
>
> With all patterns enabled `next-error' offers those wrong matches
> instead of what the specific patterns for those parts get -- I suppose
> because the gnu match is earlier in the line.
Correct. That's the intended behavior.
> My best idea for the irix ones would be to disallow ": " in the gnu
> pattern filename part. Other colons could be allowed for dos drive
> letters or the occasional filename with a colon, but rate colon+space as
> more likely to be a separator than a part of a name. Mind you the gnu
> pattern is already far too complicated for me to want to do anything to
> it :-)
There's no point changing the gnu pattern just to handle these
additional patterns, which already have their own dedicated entries in
compilation-error-regexp-alist.
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