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

[Thomas F. Burdick]

Thomas F. Burdick writes:
 > 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.

Whatever the cause, it seems to have gone away with the latest SLIME
and SBCL-0.8.8.