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Consider supporting GNU-style error messages #6518
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In the face of #8541 I don't think this needs to remain open. |
The two issues/PRs are discussing fairly different things. This one suggests using the standard gnu-style locations that are a cryptic |
This issue has been open one year with no activity. Consequently, it is being marked with the "stale" label. What this means is that the issue will be automatically closed in 30 days unless more comments are added or the "stale" label is removed. Comments that provide new information on the issue are especially welcome: is it still reproducible? did it appear in other contexts? how critical is it? etc. |
Original bug ID: 6518
Reporter: @gasche
Status: acknowledged (set by @gasche on 2014-08-21T05:47:51Z)
Resolution: open
Priority: normal
Severity: feature
Category: compiler driver
Duplicate of: #5070
Related to: #6087
Monitored by: @yakobowski
Bug description
In PR #6087 Daniel Bünzli requested the use of the more standard GNU-style error messages, which have the advantage of being recognized by tools without specific configuration -- while the error-message-regexp that Emacs uses to match OCaml error messages recently changed and could require upstream change as well.
Additional information
(Note that even if a compiler-wide switch happens, ocamlbuild will need to be changed separately as it embeds its own error-location printing routines in ocamlbuild/loc.ml)
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