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

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

mandag 16 oktober 2006 22:09 skrev 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.

Hi Miguel.

Thanks a lot for your answer. I suspected that gcms had some special "Emacs 
detection". However, my problem was related to running: emacs -> xbuild -> 
gmcs, where even the linenumbers dissappear! Here is an overview of my tests:

gmcs alone => line + column
xbuild -> gmcs => line + column
emacs -> gmcs => line only
emacs -> make -> gmcs => line only
emacs -> xbuild -> gmcs => neither line, nor column.

I am pretty surprised by the last line. Having no line information, _really_ 
confuses the next-error command of Emacs ;-)

Is there a way to force gmcs to provide (at least) line numbers in that case?

FYI: It should be quite trivial to extend the compilation-error-regexp-alist 
in Emacs to handle column information too. I am using the csharp-mode from 
davh.dk, and I believe the pattern in there can be changed to match column 
cases too (match both with, and without . I am willing to try and submit a 
changed pattern to the maintainer of the compilation mode file.

Regards,

Mads

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