[slime-devel] SLIME/SBCL bug

[Luke Gorrie]

Raymond Wiker <Raymond.Wiker at fast.no> writes:

>         A few things:
> 
>         1) How do I subscribe to slime-devel? I'm not sure that I have
> anything to contribute, but I like knowing what's going on :-)

You can subscribe to the mailing list via the web interface at
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>         2) swank-sbcl does 
> 
>                 (require 'sb-bsd-sockets)
>  and 
>                 (require 'sb-introspect)
> 
>         These are asdf packages, and require won't be able to find
> them unless asdf itself is in the SBCL image; in other words, they
> should be preceded by 
> 
>                 (require 'asdf)

Apparently in more recent SBCLs ASDF will auto-load. Here's what
Christophe Rhodes said:

  http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2003-October/000033.html

(Actually, that was in reply to an earlier mail from you, but it seems
your address you fell off the CC-list.)

>         3) I've been seeing these errors (or something similar) for a few
> days now:
> 
> : You have encountered a bug in SLIME.

We had a similar report recently:

  http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2003-November/000070.html

It seems you're running an older version of the Elisp code that the CL
backend that it talks to. Possibly there's an old byte-compiled
slime.elc being loaded instead of the latest code?

Cheers,
Luke