Bug#319427: [cl-debian] Bug#319427: Error while compiling SBCL for SLIME

[R. Mattes]

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 13:36 +0200, Alexis Rimbaud wrote:
> Hi René,
> 
> René van Bevern a écrit :
> > On 22.07.05, Alexis Rimbaud wrote:
> >
> >>Here is the error I get when starting SLIME with SBCL as the
> >>`inferior-lisp-program':
> > 
> > 
> > Assuming that you are using Slime from Peter van Eynde's repository:
> > The recent released Slime version, which is the one provided there,
> > (1.2.1) is known to support SBCL only up to version 0.8.21. See
> > /usr/share/doc/slime/PROBLEMS for details.
> 
> The 0.8.17.4-1 version from universe (which should fit) doesn't work 
> either. The error here occurs when requiring sb-bsd-sockets ("Don't know 
> how to REQUIRE SB-BSD-SOCKETS.") but has nothing to do with SLIME.

Same happened to me over here on a freshly installed Ubuntu/Hoary.
This looks _suspiciously_ like the problem with build environment I
encountered on Debian/PPC a while ago: the test in contrib/bsd-sockets
fails (because of missing echo service?) and the module doesn't get
included into the package.

> Since I'm starting with Common Lisp, I don't really need to use SBCL (I 
> think CMUCL could be fine for now), but I don't like to not have the 
> choice... :-)
> 
> Are these problems specific to Debian or is there a way to have (one of) 
> the last SBCL version working with SLIME?

Well, the sbcl-9.nn seem to have a general slime problem.

 HTH Ralf Mattes

> Cheers,
> Alexis.
> 
> 
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