bug#11254: 24.0.94; cannot find compilation-error locations for Java

[Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:

> When I work on a maven-managed java project, I add this to
> java-mode-hook:
> (set (make-local-variable 'compile-command)
>      (concat "cd " (locate-dominating-file buffer-file-name "pom.xml") " && mvn compile test package"))
> i.e., M-x compile RET runs maven in a directory far above the location
> of the current file.
> The errors in the compilation buffer look like this:
>
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: null (No such file or directory)
> 	at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
> 	at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:137)

[...]

> where every single line in clickable in the most useless way possible:
> it asks _me_ for a directory where the file in (file.java:lineno) is located.

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

I seem to recall there being fixes in this area (Java error parsing)
over the years -- are you still seeing this problem in recent versions
of Emacs?

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