[Mono-dev] gmcs output differing from shell and emacs (through make and xbuild)

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

> I am rather confused to this. What exactly controls the format of the error 
> messages from gmcs? Can I somehow make it at least output the line numbers, 
> even when called from xbuild?

The compiler detects if its being ran in Emacs, and if so, turns off
column information, because column information confuses Emacs'
next-error command.