[slime-devel] Abort loading file "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

[Helmut Eller]

* Irène Durand [2011-12-09 14:43] writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am teaching Lisp for a weak in Vietnam. One of my students could not
> start Slime although he had the same environment (Ubuntu, Emacs23, SBCL)
> as his other colleagues. He has installed SBCL and Slime using "apt-get".
>
> All the things I usually try usually in the .emacs file did not work so I am
> turning to you for
> help.
>
> Below the trace of the loading of Slime.
> I thank you in advance,
> Irène Durand
>
> Le 09/12/11 08:37, Thien Sy a écrit :
>
>     (progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
>     :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall
>     (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.3613" :coding-system
>     "iso-latin-1-unix"))
>    
>     This is SBCL 1.0.50.0.debian, 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.
>     * 
>     ; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
>    
>     debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE in thread #
>     <THREAD
>                                                                        
>     "initial thread" RUNNING
>
>     {AA65749}>:
>       READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
>         SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 5611 (line 143, column 52) on #
>     <SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
>                                                                              
>     for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
>                                                                              
>     {AA713D1}>:
>           package "ASDF" not found

Installing the cl-asdf Debian package would probably solve this problem.

The Debian maintainers modified swank-loader.lisp and added this
"feature". So the Debian bug tracker would be the right place to report
this issue (I think they fixed it already).

Helmut