This a proposal to generalize the bahaviour of the "Gnu Make + Gnu Gcc Parser". The idea being that:

• The functionality is split, do that "Gnu Make" can be enabled independently. This makes sense as it "just" keeps track of the current working directory for resolving relative paths.
• To allow other build-systems or manually communicating the working directory to Jenkins from scripts, some "directory change notification" regex could be specified (potentially multiple fields for complex builds using multiple build systems). "Gnu Make" would then be just a predefined regex.

IMHO this would not be hard to do, and the "Next Gen" plugin would be a natural fit for such a change