[slime-devel] Fwd: problems with loading files CYGWIN, CLISP

[Mirko Vukovic]

By mistake I replied this to Helmut, instead of sending it to the list.


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From: Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [slime-devel] problems with loading files CYGWIN, CLISP
To: Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net>


On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Helmut Eller <heller at common-lisp.net> wrote:
> * Stephen Lee [2009-09-25 16:28+0200] writes:
>
>> Attach is my *slime-events* buffer, yeap seems like it has something to do
>> with parse-cygwin-filename.
>>
>> Anyone else has any idea what to do?
>
> I can only say that
>
> (swank-backend::parse-cygwin-filename "/home/stephen/test.lisp")
>
> works just fine with CLISP 2.48 on Linux.
> I don't see why it wouldn't work on Windows.
>
> Helmut
>
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I have this same problem with clisp 2.46 on cygwin.  I traced it to
`regexp:match' in `parse-cygwin-filename'.

I took it up on clisp-list mailing list (subject: regexp:match returns
with `VALUES: too many values' error).  It turned out to be a bug in
clisp - regexp:match would return nothing, not even nil in case of no
matches.  That was supposed to be fixed in a later release of clisp.

I have not tried installing 2.48 yet  - not sure if it has been
compiled on cygwin.

Mirko