+#
+# The compiler might end by the number of messages issued (Clang 3.2):
+#
+# syncline.c:1:2: error: "1"
+# #error "1"
+# ^
+# 1 error generated.
+#
+# When c++ is used to compiler C, we might have more messages (Clang 3.2):
+#
+# clang: warning: treating 'c' input as 'c++' when in C++ mode, this behavior is deprecated
+#
+#
+# xlc reports things like:
+#
+# "input.yy", line 80.21: 1540-0218 (S) The call does not match any parameter list for "operator<<".
+# "/usr/vacpp/include/iosfwd", line 32.6: 1506-205 (S) #error This file to be used only with IBM VisualAge C++ v4 and later compilers
+
+AT_CHECK([[$PERL -p -0777 - stderr <<\EOF
+ # 1. Remove useless lines.
+
+ # distcc clutter.
+ s/^distcc\[\d+\] .*\n//gm;
+ # c vs. c++.
+ s/^clang: warning: treating 'c' input as 'c\+\+'.*\n//gm;
+ # Function context.
+ s/^[^:]*: In function '[^']+':\n//gm;
+ # Caret error.
+ s/^ *#error.*\n *\^\n//gm;
+ # Number of errors.
+ s/^1 error generated\.\n//gm;
+
+ # 2. Normalize the lines we kept.