[TxMt] Makefile support?

[Niko Matsakis]

Thanks everyone for the help!  A few quick responses:

Michael Sheets wrote:

> From a post of allan's two days ago:
>
> "There is a Makefile bundle, it does this, but it is *very*  
> rudimentary (I wrote the build command, but I rarely ever work with  
> Makefiles, so I didn’t spend much time prettying up the output)."

Sorry, I must have missed that message.  I only recently joined the  
list.  Seems like it answers my question though. :)

> This is what I tried to create with the tm_parser ruby module used  
> by the Make command. It filters stdin based on the typical  
> file:line:[column:]error pattern and makes the errors clickable (by  
> outputting HTML, and expecting this to be is used in a “Show as  
> HTML” context).

Hmm, this sounds like exactly what I want.  Maybe I'm missing  
something in my setup?  I'll go poking around.

> But basically all the script runners / compilers we have (except  
> Makefile bundle) do not use it, because they can provide a much  
> better user experience by not outsourcing those 3 lines of regexp- 
> matching ;)

Right, and that makes perfect sense to me.  It would simply be nice  
to have something grep-like as a fallback option.


Niko