[slime-devel] Complaints about trying to require SB-INTROSPECT when loading with a core file

[Nikodemus Siivola]

On 2/23/08, Rupert Swarbrick <rswarbrick at googlemail.com> wrote:

>    (maxima
>     ("sbcl"
>      "--core"
>      "/home/rupert/src/maxima/src/binary-sbcl/maxima.core"))))

The problem is almost certainly with SBCL_HOME: if the environment
variable is not set, SBCL defaults to the location of the core --
which is wrong with your custom core. You need to either set if to
where-ever Debian installs the core and contribs by default.

You can find this out by calling (getenv "SBCL_HOME") after starting
SBCL in the terminal:

> unset SBCL_HOME
> sbcl --no-userinit
This is SBCL 1.0.14.39.hax, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* (posix-getenv "SBCL_HOME")

"/usr/local/lib/sbcl"

(Yours is something else, probably.)

Cheers,

 -- Nikodemus