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

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Helmut Eller writes:
 > "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.

Hmm, it had been working for me with the April 9 cvs, and a few before
that.  It gets the sigbus when SBCL is compiling the swank code,
before it's connected, so I doubt it's a communication-style issue.
Quite possibly an SBCL bug, though.