[slime-devel] Re: emacs build complains about slime

[Luke Gorrie]

GP lisper <spambait at CloudDancer.com> writes:

> While tracking down an emacs problem, I noticed the following while
> compiling emacs:
> 
> Dumping under names emacs and emacs-21.3.1
> 715504 pure bytes used
> ./emacs -q -batch -f list-load-path-shadows
> This site has duplicate Lisp libraries with the same name.
> If a locally-installed Lisp library overrides a library in the Emacs release,
> that can cause trouble, and you should probably remove the locally-installed
> version unless you know what you are doing.
> 
> /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/tree-widget hides /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/tree-widget

We use Emacs21's tree-widget.el library and we have bundled it with
SLIME so that it will be available under other Emacsen. The warning
here is saying that you have two tree-widget.el's and Emacs's own one
is taking precedence over SLIME's copy.

I'm not sure if there is a better way to handle this.