[slime-devel] Installation Slime with OpenMCL

[jsdey at optonline.net]

Greetings:

I wanted to fool around with slime to learn lisp.  I am caught in a
dilemma like which came first the chicken or the egg.  Right now the
contents of slime.el is unfathonable to me because I am not familiar 
with
the list syntacs.  It looks like I am unable to launch swank because a
path spec may be in error.  I am sorry to bother you with this request
but I am hoping someone will take pity on me and give me a little
advise.  Thanks

BACKGROUND

When I enter "M-x slime" in emacs, the following message appears:

apply: Specified program for new process is a directory


Emacs:

GNU Emacs 21.3.50.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.0.0) of 2003-11-14 on 
marx.local

Snippit from .emacs

(setq inferior-lisp-program
     
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/share/emacs/21.3.50/lisp")
(add-to-list 'load-path "/Users/robo2/Lisp/slime")
     (require 'slime)
     (add-hook 'lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (slime-mode t)))
     (add-hook 'inferior-lisp-mode-hook (lambda () (inferior-slime-mode 
t)))

OpenMCL:

Welcome to OpenMCL Version (Beta: Darwin) 0.14.1-p1!

Command "openmcl" launches interpreter.

Slime:

robo2:~/lisp/slime/CVS robo2$ less Entries

/ChangeLog/1.343/Wed Apr 21 22:58:34 2004//
/HACKING/1.5/Mon Mar 29 00:59:38 2004//
/README/1.9/Tue Nov 25 00:22:36 2003//
/hyperspec.el/1.2/Thu Dec  4 16:42:53 2003//
/metering.lisp/1.1/Wed Feb 18 07:25:38 2004//
/nregex.lisp/1.1/Wed Apr 21 18:55:24 2004//
/slime.el/1.271/Wed Apr 21 22:59:04 2004//
/swank-allegro.lisp/1.29/Wed Apr  7 16:35:20 2004//
/swank-backend.lisp/1.43/Wed Apr 14 18:50:36 2004//
/swank-clisp.lisp/1.29/Tue Apr  6 10:42:53 2004//
/swank-cmucl.lisp/1.97/Wed Apr 21 19:46:40 2004//
/swank-gray.lisp/1.5/Tue Mar  9 19:35:36 2004//
/swank-lispworks.lisp/1.38/Sat Mar 27 21:17:36 2004//
/swank-loader.lisp/1.21/Wed Apr 21 18:56:42 2004//
/swank-openmcl.lisp/1.72/Tue Apr  6 10:42:53 2004//
/swank-sbcl.lisp/1.83/Tue Apr  6 10:42:53 2004//
/swank-source-path-parser.lisp/1.5/Mon Mar 29 17:49:38 2004//
/swank.asd/1.2/Thu Jan 22 00:10:39 2004//
/swank.lisp/1.170/Wed Apr 21 21:51:23 2004//
/test-all.sh/1.1/Tue Mar  9 20:12:43 2004//
/test.sh/1.6/Sat Jan 31 11:50:25 2004//
/xref.lisp/1.1/Fri Jan  2 08:17:15 2004//

System:

Mac OS X v 10.3.3 -- Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5