capturing pva multiline compiler output for emacs compile mode

I wish to compile hSpice pva through emacs. However, compile-mode does not parse the output properly.

This is the error message the pva compiler generates (the pvaE section):

Parsing include file 'include/constants.vams'
Parsing include file 'include/disciplines.vams'
*pvaE* Syntax error, unsupported syntax or illegal keyword at/before 'vco_cal_dec'
    file "/my/path/to/file/veriloga.va", line# 226

  (ari_var>=0 ari_var<= 7) : ari_var2=16;
              ^

This is the compile mode settings that fail to capture the above output:

(defvar verilog-compilation-error-regexp-alist '("^\*pvaE\* .+\n\s+file \"\\(.+\\)\", line# \\([0-9]+\\)"  1 2))
(add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist  verilog-compilation-error-regexp-alist)

Help fixing this regexp will be much appreciated开发者_运维百科 !

The whitespace syntax in your string is wrong. Instead of "\s+" it should be "\\s-+".