[slime-devel] Setting FASL directory

[Stas Boukarev]

David Neu <david at davidneu.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'd like to be able to set the location of the *.fasl files that are
> ending up in ~/.slime/fasl/..., preferably from my .emacs.
>
> I tried setting slime-compile-file-options in my .emacs file as follows
>   (eval-after-load "slime"
>     '(progn
>        (setq slime-compile-file-options (append '(:fasl-directory
> "/tmp/") slime-compile-file-options))
>        ...))
> but that didn't seem to do it.
>
> Then I tried to put the following in my ~/.swank.lisp file
> (setf swank:*fasl-pathname-function*
>       (lambda (input-file options)
> 	(declare (ignore options))
> 	(let* ((str "/tmp/")
> 	       (dir (filename-to-pathname str)))
> 	  (assert (char= (aref str (1- (length str))) #\/))
> 	  (compile-file-pathname input-file :output-file dir))))
> but that didn't seem to do it.
>
And i really did miss what you wanted. `slime-compile-file-options'
affects where fasls will go after doing C-c C-k. And there is no
currently easy way to specify where fasls from slime itself are going.

-- 
With best regards, Stas.