[slime-devel] Re: slime startup with clbuild's START_SLIME_USING_CORE

[Helmut Eller]

* David Lichteblau [2008-02-25 00:48+0100] writes:

> Hi,
>
> Quoting Helmut Eller (heller at common-lisp.net):
>> There might be something in your ~/.swank.lisp.
>
> thank you, that was it.  I'm using
>   (setf swank:*globally-redirect-io* t)
> and that causes trouble in combination with the recent
> SWANK-LOADER::INIT changes.
>
> Dumping a core file with *globally-redirect-io* worked before the new
> SWANK-LOADER::INIT was introduced, and it still worked for the brief
> time period where swank.asd was still unchanged.
>
> The problem occurs since rev 1.6 of swank.asd, which runs
> SWANK-LOADER::INIT during compilation, and hence before saving the core
> file.
>
> Reverting rev 1.6 fixes things for me.  Not sure what the -right-
> solution is though.

Hmm... Calling swank::revert-global-io-redirection before saving the
core should work.  Having separate compile, load, and init operations
would probably be TRT.  I don't know if ASDF supports that directly.

Helmut.