[slime-devel] FreeBSD+sbcl: sldb fails to pop up

Ari Johnson iamtheari at gmail.com
Sun Oct 10 17:56:01 UTC 2004


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:51:03 -0500, Brian Mastenbrook
<bmastenb at cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Oct 10, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ari Johnson wrote:
> 
> > I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and sbcl 0.8.12, using GNU Emacs 21.3.  The
> > sldb debugger fails to pop up when an error occurs, and instead I have
> > to interact with the sbcl debugger in the REPL buffer.  Am I missing a
> > prerequisite somewhere?  I threw slime in
> > /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime and it loads fine.  The
> > pertinent part of my .emacs follows, and I then do M-x slime to start
> > it up.  Thanks to anyone who can help me out on this.
> 
> Hi Ari,
> 
> I think the issue is that the SBCL you're running is too old for recent
> versions of SLIME. The most recent SBCL binary on http://www.sbcl.org/
> is 0.8.14 (paging antifuchs!); try downloading and using this.

Looks like FreeBSD is behind - not all that surprising.  I try to
stick to the ports tree because then upgrades are more or less
automated and I don't have to manually version-track, but I'll give
that a shot.

> I'm guessing your SLIME compile never actually finished, and that's why
> not everything works right.

SLIME works fine on my Arch Linux box, which has SBCL 0.8.14, so I
guess that's possible.  Did slime have problems on SBCL 0.8.12, or has
it just been changed to only work with the newer version?

Thanks for the quick response.




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