[slime-devel] Re: CLISP SLIME implementation breaks in CVS

[funkyj at gmail.com]

I'm a lisp and slime newbie.

I just tried slime with these components and it is barfing for me as well.

    GNU Emacs 21.3.1
    GNU bash, version 3.00.16(11)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)
    GNU CLISP 2.35 (2005-08-29) (built on winsteingoldlap.bluelnk.net [192.168.7.100])
    slime -- checked out of CVS this evening (Sun Dec 18 03:07:16 UTC 2005)
    Windows XP Pro

for me, I type M-x slime, the inferior lisp buffer appears and then I
see these errors:

clisp>    (load "c:/cygwin/home/Jonathan/elisp/slime/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t)
clisp>    (swank:start-server "c:/DOCUME~1/Jonathan/LOCALS~1/Temp/slime.1456" :external-format :iso-latin-1-unix)
clisp>        [...]
clisp>    Copyright (c) Bruno Haible, Michael Stoll 1992, 1993
clisp>        [...]
clisp>
clisp>    [1]> 
clisp>    *** - LOAD: A file with name
clisp>          /c/cygwin/home/Jonathan/elisp/slime/slime/swank-loader.lisp does not
clisp>          exist
clisp>    The following restarts are available:
clisp>    ABORT          :R1      ABORT
clisp>    Break 1 [2]> 

Since it looked like the path was bad, I tried manually loading the
desired file like this:

clisp>    Break 2 [6]> (load "/cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Jonathan/elisp/slime/slime/swank-loader.lisp")

and it ended with this:

clisp>    The following functions were used but are deprecated:
clisp>
clisp>     SET - This function name is anachronistic. Use SETF SYMBOL-VALUE instead.
clisp>    0 errors, 2 warnings
clisp>    WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:
clisp>             (ACTIVATE-STEPPING ADD-FD-HANDLER ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER ALL-THREADS
clisp>             CALLS-WHO
clisp>             DISASSEMBLE-FRAME FIND-THREAD INSPECT-FOR-EMACS INTERRUPT-THREAD
clisp>             RECEIVE
clisp>             REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS SEND SLDB-BREAK-AT-START
clisp>             SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN SPAWN THREAD-ID TOGGLE-TRACE WHO-MACROEXPANDS
clisp>             WHO-SPECIALIZES)
clisp>    ;; Loaded file /cygdrive/c/cygwin/home/Jonathan/elisp/slime/slime/swank-loader.lisp
clisp>    T


Can anyone help me?

It looks like lots of other people are reporting slime/clisp/cygwin
problems ...

For now I think I'll just go back to using the inf-lisp.el mode.

It would be nice to get the alledgedly powerful slime working though.

Regards,
  --jfc