"helpful error highlighting" puke in *compilation* buffer

[Dan Jacobson]

OK, who's the j**koff who made compiling C programs come up with a mess of
reverse video escape sequences (^]33 whatever) ("helpful error highlighting")
right there in the innocent *compilation* buffer here on Mandrake 7.2?

The temporary fix for me is putting a TERM=dumb before the minibuffer
default make -k command.
--------buffer contents:
cd /home/jidanni/mapping/
TERM=dumb make -k electric && electric
cc     electric.c   -o electric
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