[slime-devel] can't M-x slime on CMUCL 18c+

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On Wed Jun 08, 2005 at 01:02:32PM +1000, Jack Andrews wrote:
> hi.
> 
> i recently downloaded slime-1.2.1 but it fails to work on, CMUCL 3.0.8 18c+
> (debian):
> 
> i don't know if its because:
>   a) i'm using lisp-safe.core (more typechecks?)
>   b) i should be using an older slime to match the older CMUCL
>   c) ...
> 
> i'd prefer to use an older slime than a newer cmucl, unless i'm persuaded
> otherwise.
> 

I'm running CMUCL 19a-release-20040728 and slime-20050519 without any problems at all on a Gentoo system. The CMUCL upgrade was trivial - just get the tarball and unzip it in /usr/local and everything just works. 

-Jeff