[slime-devel] Using SLIME with :sb-thread enabled in SBCL?

[Benjamin Lambert]

Dear SLIME,

I've been having this problem, in one way or another, for a long time  
now.  But, I think, I'd always found some combination of SLIME and  
SBCL that worked together.  Now, I'm stuck.

I'm running SBCL 1.0.22, on Linux x86-64.  I believe I have a very  
recent version of SLIME, checked out from CVS within the last few weeks.

SLIME seems to work fine with the SBCL binary distribution.  But, when  
I recompile it with ":sb-thread" enabled, Slime won't start.  So, it  
seems that the threading is interfering with SLIME?

When I starts Slime, this is the error I see see this in mini-buffer:
List connection closed unexpectedly: exited abnormally with code 256
And, in the *inferior-lisp* buffer I see:
"   Implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL- 
HANG-P.
; loading #P"/home/benlambert/.slime/fasl/2008-11-02/sbcl-1.0.22-linux- 
x86-64/swank.fasl"
WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:
  (CALLS-WHO DISASSEMBLE-FRAME SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN
             WHO-SPECIALIZES)
;; Swank started at port: 41099.
41099
*
Process inferior-lisp hangup"


I'm glad to provide any more debugging information that I can.  Is  
there any fix, or workaround, that I could try?  That is, short of  
just not using threading.

Thanks for any help you might be able to give.

Ben Lambert

P.S.  I'm a long time user and a big fan of Slime.  Good work, all.


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Benjamin Lambert
Graduate Student of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
www.cs.cmu.edu/~belamber
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