[slime-devel] Re: Compilation Problem with CVS-Slime

[Christophe Rhodes]

"R. Mattes" <rm at mh-freiburg.de> writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> i just checked out the latest CVS version of Slime, but when i try to
> load it in emacs (21.3.1) i get the following error:
>
>  debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread 17146:
>   There is no applicable method for the generic function
>     #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN (0)>
>   when called with arguments
>     (# :NAME "Swank").
>
> Any idea what's going wrong here?

Usually this means "your sbcl is too old".

Cheers,

Christophe
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