# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 1095693960 0
# Node ID fe97fe43464ad7de7f4bee5a42c4aacbcc455194
# Parent  497f0d2ca551bc180a105d913086e779db565535
(Compilation): Explain how to make a silent subprocess that won't be
terminated.  Explain compilation-environment.

diff -r 497f0d2ca551 -r fe97fe43464a man/building.texi
--- a/man/building.texi	Mon Sep 20 12:03:05 2004 +0000
+++ b/man/building.texi	Mon Sep 20 15:26:00 2004 +0000
@@ -128,6 +128,21 @@
 wait $pid                     # @r{Wait for subprocess}
 @end example
 
+  If the background process does not output to the compilation buffer,
+so you only need to prevent it from being killed when the main
+compilation process terminates, this is sufficient:
+
+@example
+nohup @var{command}; sleep 1
+@end example
+
+@vindex compilation-environment
+  You can control the environment passed to the compilation command
+with the variable @code{compilation-environment}.  Its value is a list
+of environment variable settings; each element should be a string of
+the form @code{"@var{envvarname}=@var{value}"}.  These environment
+variable settings override the usual ones.
+
 @node Grep Searching
 @section Searching with Grep under Emacs