[slime-devel] swank-loader compatibility with cl-launch (solved)

[Nathan Bird]

This issue goes back a while with a few different proposed fixes.
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/slime-devel/2006-March/004679.html being
where I first know about it.


This solution is pretty simple, except that it uses functions from the asdf
in swank-loader.lisp.
Is there anyone using swank-loader directly that does not have asdf and
swank properly setup? If asdf is setup properly you can still directly
invoke swank-loader.

(defvar *source-directory* 
-  (make-pathname :name nil :type nil 
-                 :defaults (or *load-pathname*
*default-pathname-defaults*))
+  (asdf:component-pathname (asdf:find-system :swank))


The reason being that when cl-launch loads the system, it puts the
swank-loader.fasl in its own cache, and then when it loads that, the
*load-pathname* is apparently nil and it can't find the source files. Slime
still puts the fasls in its own cache.

With this the source files are always found relative to the location of the
asd file, which should be pretty dependable right? 

I've tested this with ACL on windows loading swank directly. And on debian
sbcl loading swank directly, and cl-launch loading swank.

Nathan Bird
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