Re: synchronous M-x compile?

[Chetan <Chetan.xspam@xspam.sbcglobal.net>]

Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:

> M-x compile runs the compile process asynchronously, and e.g.
> (compile "make -k") always evaluates as true, even if there are
> compilation errors. Is there a simple way to alter this behaviour so
> that compile happens synchronously, and evaluates as false if there
> are errors? I realise that one approach could be based on something
> like (shell-command "make"), but ideally I'd like not to lose all the
> other functionality in compile.el.
>
> As an aside, I guess that the motivation for asynchronous compile is
> the time taken for compilation? This has obviously decreased a lot
> during the life of emacs and I wonder what the distribution of compile
> times looks like now for emacs users? I only work on simple, small
> projects for which compilation takes a few seconds, and so I'm happy
> to not start another task during that time. But perhaps I have no idea
> how long compilation takes for those working on large projects?
>
> Dan
As a quick and dirty solution, doesn't M-x compile followed by
shell-command work? 

Chetan