Re: Dealing with "gnu" rule in compilation-error-regexp-alist

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> What do people suggest to work around this problem?

The Right Way is to get the tool to use the GNU format for its
error messages.

> When compile is called from inside the package-mode's buffer it could
> subtract "gnu" from compilation-error-regexp-alist, but that seems
> very unfriendly, and hard for users to debug.

Not knowing how your "package-mode" is typically used, I can't judge
whether messages from other tools are likely to appear there as well.

> Likewise tweaking the "gnu" rule makes a mess, as there's really
> several regexps causing the problem.

The patch below tweaks it in a way which seems to solve your problem.

> The solution needs to work with the already released versions of
> Emacs too.

;-)

> Long term, I think it would be good have some sort of
> ordering or priority to the rules; "gnu" being low priority,
> without breaking the later fontification rules (why these
> rules "append" now).

Supposedly there is such a priority based on ordering.

> (setq compilation-error-regexp-alist '(percent gnu))
> (compile "echo 'zz: %Error: foo.x:1: something'")

E.g. from what I understand the above *should* work, so there's maybe
a bug lurking here.


        Stefan


=== modified file 'lisp/progmodes/compile.el'
--- lisp/progmodes/compile.el	2010-04-11 03:41:47 +0000
+++ lisp/progmodes/compile.el	2010-04-15 18:44:06 +0000
@@ -253,9 +253,9 @@
      ;; The core of the regexp is the one with *?.  It says that a file name
      ;; can be composed of any non-newline char, but it also rules out some
      ;; valid but unlikely cases, such as a trailing space or a space
-     ;; followed by a -.
+     ;; followed by a -, or a colon followed by a space.
      "^\\(?:[[:alpha:]][-[:alnum:].]+: ?\\)?\
-\\([0-9]*[^0-9\n]\\(?:[^\n ]\\| [^-/\n]\\)*?\\): ?\
+\\([0-9]*[^0-9\n]\\(?:[^\n :]\\| [^-/\n]\\|:[^ \n]\\)*?\\): ?\
 \\([0-9]+\\)\\(?:\\([.:]\\)\\([0-9]+\\)\\)?\
 \\(?:-\\([0-9]+\\)?\\(?:\\.\\([0-9]+\\)\\)?\\)?:\
 \\(?: *\\(\\(?:Future\\|Runtime\\)?[Ww]arning\\|W:\\)\\|\