bug#7180: 24.0.50; compilation-mode still has annoying issues with standard error msgs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

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Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> [In the following example, the compiler is "clang++" (I was trying out
> clang) but both recent and old versions of "g++" show exactly the same
> problem, so it's nothing to do with clang in particular.]
>
> The following is some compiler output:
>
> ----------------
> clang++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -I/usr/include/libpng12   -pthread -I/usr/include/OpenEXR      -I/usr/include/lua5.1    -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -march=native -mfpmath=sse -g -std=c++98 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic-errors  -fno-finite-math-only -MT envmap-light.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/envmap-light.Tpo -c -o envmap-light.o envmap-light.cc
> In file included from envmap-light.cc:13:
> In file included from ./scene.h:18:
> ./surface.h:75:55: error: extra ';' inside a struct or union [-pedantic]
>   virtual Sampler *make_sampler () const { return 0; };
>                                                       ^
> ----------------
>
> When I hit next-error, it should jump directly to the real error
> ("./surface.h:..."), but instead it positions the cursor on the first
> "error context line", ("In file included from envmap-light.cc:13:"),

(This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)

Are you still seeing this issue in mode recent Emacs versions?  I tried
putting the example output in a buffer and `M-x compilation-mode', and
it looks to me like it was parsed correctly:


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