From: OrangeCap
Subject: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <1137708001.612117.44190@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
Hi
I just downloaded the slime 1.2.1 as posted on sbcl.org today, and upon
compiling it in emacs i m getting following error:

This is SBCL 0.9.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
*
; loading #P"/usr/local/slime-1.2.1/swank-loader.lisp"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-backend.fasl"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/nregex.fasl"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining ARGLIST (T) in DEFMETHOD

debugger invoked on a END-OF-FILE in thread
#<THREAD "initial thread" {A672381}>:
  end of file on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
{A96D481}>

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-IMPL::INPUT-UNSIGNED-8BIT-BYTE
 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
{A96D481}>
 T
 NIL)
0]



I am using sbcl CL 0.9.8 on RHEL AS 4
This is my .emacs:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/sbcl")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/slime-1.2.1")
(require 'slime)
;;(slime-setup)
(add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t)))
(add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode t)))

Any idea on how to correct this??

From: Christophe Rhodes
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <sqk6cvc1o0.fsf@cam.ac.uk>
"OrangeCap" <················@gmail.com> writes:

> I just downloaded the slime 1.2.1 as posted on sbcl.org today

This is unlikely, as slime is not hosted on sbcl.org.

> This is SBCL 0.9.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> [...]
>
> Any idea on how to correct this??

slime 1.2.1 does not support recent SBCL releases.  To run slime with
SBCL releases from the past six months or so, you will need to get
slime from CVS.

Christophe
From: OrangeCap
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <1137721919.480938.282140@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Hi

Downloaded the slime from cvs as well, now getting following error:
(load "/usr/local/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
(swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.5452" :external-format
:iso-latin-1-unix)

This is SBCL 0.9.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
*
; loading #P"/usr/local/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-backend.fasl"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/nregex.fasl"
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining ARGLIST (T) in DEFMETHOD

debugger invoked on a END-OF-FILE in thread
#<THREAD "initial thread" {A672381}>:
  end of file on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
{AA2F971}>

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-IMPL::INPUT-UNSIGNED-8BIT-BYTE
 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
{AA2F971}>
 T
 NIL)
0]

Rest of my setup is same as above excpet .emacs is now
 (setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/local/bin/sbcl")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/slime")
(require 'slime)
(slime-setup)
From: Juho Snellman
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <slrndt1sa3.jtv.jsnell@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
OrangeCap <················@gmail.com> wrote:
> #<THREAD "initial thread" {A672381}>:
>   end of file on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
> /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
> {AA2F971}>

Does removing the /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/ directory help?

-- 
Juho Snellman
From: OrangeCap
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <1138307217.480333.250380@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
Hi
Sorry for late reply, was out of town.
I tried removing the mentioned direcoty, but am still getting
compilation issues in Slime. SBCL implemention is working fine, but
Slime is not compiling it properly.

I have stored by LISP implemention and SLIME files in /usr/local

Upon starting emac and issuing M-x slime I am getting following ( sorry
about such a long paste ):

load "/usr/local/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
(swank:start-server "/tmp/slime.4752" :external-format
:iso-latin-1-unix)

This is SBCL 0.9.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
*
; loading #P"/usr/local/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-backend.lisp" (written 20 NOV
2005 06:25:38 PM):

; /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-backend.fasl
written
; compilation finished in 0:00:02
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-backend.fasl"
WARNING: SWANK-BACKEND also exports the following symbols:
  (SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-WEAK-VALUE-HASH-TABLE
SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-CATCH-TAGS

SWANK-BACKEND:ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER

SWANK-BACKEND:FORMAT-SLDB-CONDITION

SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-PACKAGE
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:RESTART-FRAME

SWANK-BACKEND:DEFAULT-DIRECTORY

SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-SOURCE-LOCATION-FOR-EMACS

SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-WEAK-KEY-HASH-TABLE

SWANK-BACKEND:COMPUTE-BACKTRACE

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK

SWANK-BACKEND:INITIALIZE-MULTIPROCESSING
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:LIST-CALLEES

SWANK-BACKEND:REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:RECEIVE

SWANK-BACKEND:COMPILER-MACROEXPAND-1

SWANK-BACKEND:REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS

SWANK-BACKEND:ACCEPT-CONNECTION
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-NAME
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:UNPROFILE
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:TOGGLE-TRACE

SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-ALIVE-P
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:CLOSE-SOCKET

SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-SYMBOL-FOR-EMACS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN

SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-DEFAULT-INSPECTOR

SWANK-BACKEND:SLDB-BREAK-AT-START

SWANK-BACKEND:FIND-DEFINITIONS

SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-SPECIALIZES
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-STATUS

SWANK-BACKEND:CONDITION-EXTRAS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:FUNCTION-NAME

SWANK-BACKEND:OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:UNPROFILE-ALL
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:EVAL-IN-FRAME
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:FIND-THREAD

SWANK-BACKEND:SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN

SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-REFERENCES
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:LOCAL-PORT

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-DEBUGGING-ENVIRONMENT

SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILED-FUNCTIONS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:SEND

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS

SWANK-BACKEND:EMACS-CONNECTED
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-BINDS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-LOCK
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:CREATE-SOCKET

SWANK-BACKEND:BUFFER-FIRST-CHANGE

SWANK-BACKEND:SET-DEFAULT-DIRECTORY
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-RESET

SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-VAR-VALUE

SWANK-BACKEND:MACROEXPAND-ALL

SWANK-BACKEND:CURRENT-THREAD

SWANK-BACKEND:STARTUP-IDLE-AND-TOP-LEVEL-LOOPS

SWANK-BACKEND:ACTIVATE-STEPPING

SWANK-BACKEND:DISASSEMBLE-FRAME

SWANK-BACKEND:SWANK-COMPILE-FILE

SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE-REPORT

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-LOCK-HELD
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:FRAME-LOCALS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:ALL-THREADS

SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-DEFINITION
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-SETS

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITH-COMPILATION-HOOKS

SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-FN-STREAMS

SWANK-BACKEND:LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:ARGLIST

SWANK-BACKEND:RETURN-FROM-FRAME
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:LIST-CALLERS

SWANK-BACKEND:PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE

SWANK-BACKEND:ADD-FD-HANDLER
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:KILL-THREAD

SWANK-BACKEND:CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS

SWANK-BACKEND:COMPILER-MACROEXPAND

SWANK-BACKEND:CONDITION-REFERENCES
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:THREAD-ID
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:PRINT-FRAME
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:GETPID

SWANK-BACKEND:DESCRIBE-PRIMITIVE-TYPE
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:PROFILE

SWANK-BACKEND:SWANK-COMPILE-STRING

SWANK-BACKEND:MAKE-STREAM-INTERACTIVE

SWANK-BACKEND:DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-CALLS

SWANK-BACKEND:INTERRUPT-THREAD

SWANK-BACKEND:INSTALL-DEBUGGER-GLOBALLY

SWANK-BACKEND:WHO-MACROEXPANDS
                                            SWANK-BACKEND:CALLS-WHO)
See also:
  The ANSI Standard, Macro DEFPACKAGE
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/nregex.lisp" (written 19 SEP 2005
04:20:48 AM):

; /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/nregex.fasl written
; compilation finished in 0:00:00
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/nregex.fasl"
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp" (written 05 DEC
2005 06:01:50 PM):

; /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl
written
; compilation finished in 0:00:08
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-sbcl.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFERRED-COMMUNICATION-STYLE NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-TYPE-NAME NIL in
DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-SYNTAX-HOOKS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining DEFAULT-READTABLE-ALIST NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining ARGLIST (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining NEW-DEFINITION-SOURCE-P in DEFUN
STYLE-WARNING: redefining INSTALL-DEBUGGER-GLOBALLY (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-DEBUGGER-HOOK (T T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining FORMAT-SLDB-CONDITION (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CONDITION-REFERENCES (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining UNPROFILE-ALL NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function
STARTUP-MULTIPROCESSING
WARNING: DEFIMPLEMENTATION of undefined interface
(STARTUP-MULTIPROCESSING)
STYLE-WARNING: redefining THREAD-NAME (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining THREAD-STATUS (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining MAKE-LOCK NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CALL-WITH-LOCK-HELD (T T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining CURRENT-THREAD NIL in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining KILL-THREAD (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining THREAD-ALIVE-P (T) in DEFMETHOD
STYLE-WARNING: redefining MAKE-STREAM-INTERACTIVE (T) in DEFMETHOD
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-source-path-parser.lisp"
(written 07 NOV 2005 03:24:32 AM):

;
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-source-path-parser.fasl
written
; compilation finished in 0:00:00
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-source-path-parser.fasl"
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-source-file-cache.lisp"
(written 29 AUG 2005 04:02:58 PM):

;
/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-source-file-cache.fasl
written
; compilation finished in 0:00:00
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-source-file-cache.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING: redefining BUFFER-FIRST-CHANGE (T) in DEFMETHOD
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-gray.lisp" (written 22 SEP
2005 04:15:11 PM):

; /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-gray.fasl
written
; compilation finished in 0:00:01
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank-gray.fasl"
STYLE-WARNING:
   implicitly creating new generic function
STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P
; compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank.lisp" (written 17 JAN 2006
03:28:57 PM):

; /home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank.fasl written
; compilation finished in 0:00:05
;; loading
#P"/home/mimalik/.slime/fasl/sbcl-0.9.8-linux-x86/swank.fasl"
WARNING: SWANK also exports the following symbols:
  (SWANK:INIT-INSPECTOR SWANK:INSPECT-IN-FRAME
                        SWANK:INSPECT-NTH-PART
                        SWANK:GET-REPL-RESULT
                        SWANK:XREF
                        SWANK:TAKE-INPUT
                        SWANK:START-SWANK-SERVER-IN-THREAD
                        SWANK:INSPECT-FRAME-VAR
                        SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND
                        SWANK:LOAD-FILE-SET-PACKAGE
                        SWANK:APROPOS-LIST-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:DESCRIBE-FUNCTION
                        SWANK:COMPLETE-FORM
                        SWANK:SLDB-BREAK-WITH-DEFAULT-DEBUGGER
                        SWANK:COMMIT-EDITED-VALUE
                        SWANK:INSPECTOR-POP
                        SWANK:TOGGLE-PROFILE-FDEFINITION
                        SWANK:LIST-ALL-PACKAGE-NAMES
                        SWANK:SLDB-DISASSEMBLE
                        SWANK:FUZZY-COMPLETION-SELECTED
                        SWANK:INSPECTOR-REINSPECT
                        SWANK:LISTENER-EVAL
                        SWANK:LIST-THREADS
                        SWANK:QUIT-INSPECTOR
                        SWANK:REPL-EVAL-HOOK-PASS
                        SWANK:DOCUMENTATION-SYMBOL
                        SWANK:DESCRIBE-INSPECTEE
                        SWANK:DISASSEMBLE-SYMBOL
                        SWANK:BACKTRACE
                        SWANK:INVOKE-NTH-RESTART-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:REPL-SUPPRESS-ADVANCE-HISTORY
                        SWANK:RE-EVALUATE-DEFVAR
                        SWANK:FIND-DEFINITIONS-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:PPRINT-EVAL-STRING-IN-FRAME
                        SWANK:DESCRIBE-SYMBOL
                        SWANK:FRAME-LOCALS-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:DEBUGGER-INFO-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:REPL-SUPPRESS-OUTPUT
                        SWANK:ARGLIST-FOR-INSERTION
                        SWANK:CLEAR-REPL-RESULTS
                        SWANK:SLDB-ABORT
                        SWANK:SLDB-RETURN-FROM-FRAME
                        SWANK:FRAME-CATCH-TAGS-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:SWANK-TOGGLE-TRACE
                        SWANK:UNTRACE-ALL
                        SWANK:SIMPLE-COMPLETIONS
                        SWANK:KILL-NTH-THREAD
                        SWANK:EVAL-STRING-IN-FRAME
                        SWANK:OPERATE-ON-SYSTEM-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:THROW-TO-TOPLEVEL
                        SWANK:COMPILER-NOTES-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:UPDATE-INDENTATION-INFORMATION
                        SWANK:VARIABLE-DESC-FOR-ECHO-AREA
                        SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL
                        SWANK:PPRINT-INSPECTOR-PART
                        SWANK:COMPILE-FILE-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:SWANK-COMPILER-MACROEXPAND-1
                        SWANK:SET-PACKAGE
                        SWANK:INVOKE-NTH-RESTART
                        SWANK:INSPECTOR-NEXT
                        SWANK:DEBUG-NTH-THREAD
                        SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND-1
                        SWANK:SLDB-CONTINUE
                        SWANK:DESCRIBE-DEFINITION-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:COMPILE-FILE-IF-NEEDED
                        SWANK:INSPECTOR-CALL-NTH-ACTION
                        SWANK:SIMPLE-BREAK
                        SWANK:STATE-STACK
                        SWANK:SWANK-MACROEXPAND-ALL
                        SWANK:PPRINT-EVAL
                        SWANK:LOAD-FILE
                        SWANK:ARGLIST-FOR-ECHO-AREA
                        SWANK:CONNECTION-INFO
                        SWANK:EVAL-AND-GRAB-OUTPUT
                        SWANK:IO-SPEED-TEST
                        SWANK:UNDEFINE-FUNCTION
                        SWANK:COMPILE-STRING-FOR-EMACS
                        SWANK:MOP
                        SWANK:INTERACTIVE-EVAL-REGION
                        SWANK:SWANK-COMPILER-MACROEXPAND
                        SWANK:COMPLETIONS
                        SWANK:LIST-ALL-SYSTEMS-IN-CENTRAL-REGISTRY
                        SWANK:VALUE-FOR-EDITING
                        SWANK:INSPECT-CURRENT-CONDITION
                        SWANK:INSPECTOR-NTH-PART
                        SWANK:FUZZY-COMPLETIONS
                        SWANK:QUIT-THREAD-BROWSER)
See also:
  The ANSI Standard, Macro DEFPACKAGE
STYLE-WARNING: redefining PREFIXED-VAR in DEFUN
STYLE-WARNING:
   implicitly creating new generic function
INSPECT-BIGGER-PIECE-ACTIONS
STYLE-WARNING:
   implicitly creating new generic function INSPECT-WHOLE-THING-ACTION
STYLE-WARNING: implicitly creating new generic function
INSPECT-SHOW-MORE-ACTION
STYLE-WARNING:
   implicitly creating new generic function
MENU-CHOICES-FOR-PRESENTATION
WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:
 (ACTIVATE-STEPPING CALLS-WHO
                    DISASSEMBLE-FRAME
                    INSPECT-FOR-EMACS
                    RESTART-FRAME
                    SLDB-BREAK-AT-START
                    SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN
                    WHO-BINDS
                    WHO-CALLS
                    WHO-MACROEXPANDS
                    WHO-REFERENCES
                    WHO-SETS
                    WHO-SPECIALIZES)
T
* ;; Swank started at port: 33168.

NIL
* 
Process inferior-lisp hangup
From: Juho Snellman
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <slrndtie69.55f.jsnell@sbz-30.cs.Helsinki.FI>
OrangeCap <················@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> Sorry for late reply, was out of town.
> I tried removing the mentioned direcoty, but am still getting
> compilation issues in Slime. SBCL implemention is working fine, but
> Slime is not compiling it properly.

Why do you think Slime isn't getting compiled properly? I see nothing
suggesting that in the transcript. On the other hand, the final line
suggests an alltogether different problem:

> Process inferior-lisp hangup

You're very probably running into a signal handling incompability with
certain versions of SBCL, the Linux kernel and Emacs. The proper fix
is to upgrade your kernel (the problem has only been reported on 
kernels prior to 2.6.11). If that's not possible, the bug can be 
worked around by using "nohup sbcl" as your inferior lisp instead of
just "sbcl" (i.e. (setq inferior-lisp-program "nohup sbcl") in your
.emacs).

-- 
Juho Snellman
From: OrangeCap
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <1138340024.090537.241460@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
Hi
I cant thank you enough for this 1, kindly pardon my ignorance in this
matter, I am a new convert to Linux and LISP scene, (setq
inferior-lisp-program "nohup sbcl") worked perfect. I had a feeling
that the error could be due to some sort of improper option issue but
was not on dot. I was following the documentation on SBCL page on
setting up their LISP implementation. I am looking forward for next few
months of sleepless nights and joy of LISP coding.

And other posted that this community is helpful to newbies. Again thanx
a million on this tips.

Mohammad Imran Malik
From: OrangeCap
Subject: Re: Error on compling slime
Date: 
Message-ID: <1138340287.155731.256290@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
>And other posted that this community is helpful to newbies. Again thanx
a million on this tips.

A typo in my sheer ebullience, having seeing emacs work as oppose to
writing code in vi then compiling in sbcl native mode.

meant to say:

"And other posted that this community is NOT  helpful to newbies."