diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7fc831d15..4568db789 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 ## HEAD
 
 - `ginkgo` now provides a hint if you accidentally forget to run `ginkgo bootstrap` to generate a `*_suite_test.go` file that actually invokes the Ginkgo test runner. [#345](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/pull/345)
+- thanks to improvements in `go test -c` `ginkgo` no longer needs to fix Go's compilation output to ensure compilation errors are expressed relative to the CWD. [#357]
 
 ## 1.3.0 3/28/2017
 
diff --git a/ginkgo/testrunner/test_runner.go b/ginkgo/testrunner/test_runner.go
index 923fbc63a..e3c4a8d4d 100644
--- a/ginkgo/testrunner/test_runner.go
+++ b/ginkgo/testrunner/test_runner.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/exec"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"regexp"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"syscall"
@@ -138,9 +137,8 @@ func (t *TestRunner) CompileTo(path string) error {
 	output, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
 
 	if err != nil {
-		fixedOutput := fixCompilationOutput(string(output), t.Suite.Path)
 		if len(output) > 0 {
-			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to compile %s:\n\n%s", t.Suite.PackageName, fixedOutput)
+			return fmt.Errorf("Failed to compile %s:\n\n%s", t.Suite.PackageName, output)
 		}
 		return fmt.Errorf("Failed to compile %s", t.Suite.PackageName)
 	}
@@ -217,38 +215,6 @@ func copyFile(src, dst string) error {
 	return out.Chmod(mode)
 }
 
-/*
-go test -c -i spits package.test out into the cwd. there's no way to change this.
-
-to make sure it doesn't generate conflicting .test files in the cwd, Compile() must switch the cwd to the test package.
-
-unfortunately, this causes go test's compile output to be expressed *relative to the test package* instead of the cwd.
-
-this makes it hard to reason about what failed, and also prevents iterm's Cmd+click from working.
-
-fixCompilationOutput..... rewrites the output to fix the paths.
-
-yeah......
-*/
-func fixCompilationOutput(output string, relToPath string) string {
-	relToPath = filepath.Join(relToPath)
-	re := regexp.MustCompile(`^(\S.*\.go)\:\d+\:`)
-	lines := strings.Split(output, "\n")
-	for i, line := range lines {
-		indices := re.FindStringSubmatchIndex(line)
-		if len(indices) == 0 {
-			continue
-		}
-
-		path := line[indices[2]:indices[3]]
-		if filepath.Dir(path) != relToPath {
-			path = filepath.Join(relToPath, path)
-			lines[i] = path + line[indices[3]:]
-		}
-	}
-	return strings.Join(lines, "\n")
-}
-
 func (t *TestRunner) Run() RunResult {
 	if t.Suite.IsGinkgo {
 		if t.numCPU > 1 {