[slime-devel] Re: CMUCL: cannot find core file after 2004-11-07

[Chisheng Huang]

Brian Downing <bdowning at lavos.net> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:31:48PM -0800, Chisheng Huang wrote:
>> Before 2004-11-07, I could fire up CMUCL with my own lisp core image,
>> pcore, this way:
>>   M-x dired <RET> directory-containing-pcore <RET>
>>   C-u M-x slime <RET> <SPC> -core pcore <RET>
>> 
>> After I did a CVS update on 2004-11-07, doing the same thing gets me
>> the following error message:
>>   Cannot find core file pcore
>>   Based on lisp binary path `/usr/local/cmucl/bin/lisp'
>>   
>>   Process inferior-lisp exited abnormally with code 1
>> 
>> Doing a CVS update with -D "2004-11-06" got me back a version of Slime
>> that won't bark at my "C-u M-x slime <RET> <SPC> -core pcore <RET>"
>> 
>> Is this change on 2004-11-07 a bug or feature?
>
> I don't believe I changed anything like this in my commit today, and I
> see identical behavior between a 2004-11-06 and 2004-11-07 checkout.
> Here is what I think is happening:
>
> The first time you run M-x slime, it makes the *inferior-lisp* buffer
> with the pwd of the directory of the current buffer.  So if you were to
> try your experiment above and make sure you're in the right directory
> before *inferior-lisp* is created, it will work.
>
> However, *inferior-lisp* isn't normally deleted when the Slime
> connection is closed.  Afterwards, M-x slime will reuse the same
> *inferior-lisp* with the same old directory.

I was in a frenzy to finish something at that time.  What you stated
above is probably right.  I just did a "cvs update -A" and started up
CMUCL with my own core image without any problem.  Sorry about the noise.

Thanks a lot to all Slime developers for this wonderful piece of software.

Best,

-cph