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

[Brian Mastenbrook]

On Oct 10, 2004, at 12:56 PM, Ari Johnson wrote:

> 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.

Unfortunately, SBCL progresses very quickly, and releases once a month 
- so it's not surprising that ports would be behind.

> 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.

0.8.13 introduced some new features specially for SLIME. As a result, 
SLIME references some symbols that aren't external in previous versions 
of SBCL, and this causes a compile error.

Good luck!
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Brian Mastenbrook
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