[slime-devel] Re: Problems with SLIME and LispWorks 5

[Bill Atkins]

On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:03 AM, Marco Baringer wrote:

> Bill Atkins <atkinw at rpi.edu> writes:
>
>> I started Emacs without loading my configuration file ("emacs -q"),
>> then loaded SLIME and evaluated (setq inferior-lisp-program "/usr/
>> local/bin/lispworks -tty") .  Then I ran SLIME and watched some
>> output scroll through *inferior-lisp*, only to stop at a CL-USER>
>> prompt.  The echo area informs me that SLIME is still polling the
>> connection  ("Polling "/tmp/slime.1257".. (Abort with `M-x slime-
>> abort-connection'.)").  Clearing out old FASL's doesn't seem to make
>> a difference.  This is an Intel Mac, if that's relevant.
>
> slime cvs or 2.0? i believe, but am not sure, that you're one of the
> few people to run slime on lispworks 5 (it hasn't been out that long),
> so it may be lispworks 5 specific.

CVS.  Peder Klingenberg reports that it happens in 4.x too.