[slime-devel] Slime with SBCL on OS X is broken

[Helmut Eller]

"Thomas F. Burdick" <tfb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

> Got my Mac back from being repaired yesterday, and tried to update my
> SLIME.  Compiling today's CVS with sbcl-0.8.8 dies when it catches a
> SIGBUS when compiling swank.lisp.  I'll try cvs time-travel between
> April 9 and today sometime over the next week, if no one gets to it
> first, but if anyone has time, this is a heads-up.

SLIME doesn't work well with SBCL/OSX.  The standard advice is: set
swank:*communication-style* to :fd-handler and
swank::*sldb-initial-frames* to 1.

Helmut.