Re: How to defun body in procedural manner

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article 
<54d389f8-ce90-428d-8fa1-a88c971589d5@d2g2000pra.googlegroups.com>,
 Kiwon Um <um.kiwon@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello. I wrote a function as follows:
> 
> (defun my-update-package (path)
>   "Update the package in path from CVS"
>   (cvs-update path nil)
>   (shell-command (concat "touch `find " path " -name Makefile`"))
>   (compile (concat "make -C " path)))
> 
> When the function is called, it seems to execute the shell-command and
> compile lines before the finishing cvs-update line. How can I make
> this functional execution procedurally? Help me, please.

Lisp does execute procedurally.  The problem is that cvs-update starts a 
background process to do the work, and then returns.

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