[slime-devel] compilation error swank

[Helmut Eller]

* Irene DURAND [2011-09-08 13:12+0200] writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just started teaching Lisp to third year students and of course, they
> are all trying to install Slime on their laptops.
>
> One has a problem on a MacBook Pro (Lion) that I was unable to solve
> so far.
[...]
> ;; Error while compiling /Users/enguerrand-petit/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp:
> ;;   Don't know how to REQUIRE SB-BSD-SOCKETS.
> ;; See also:
> ;;   The SBCL Manual, Variable *MODULE-PROVIDER-FUNCTIONS*
> ;;   The SBCL Manual, Function REQUIRE
> ;; Aborting.

The SBCL Manual should contain the necessary info but now after a quick
look to www.sbcl.org/manual/ I'm rolling my eyes on The Useless SBCL
Manual.

The most likely cause is that SBCL is unable to find the "contrib"
directory where SB-BSD-SOCKETS is stored.  If I remember correctly, this
can be specified with the SBCL_HOME environment variable: 
SBCL_HOME=<path-where-rest-of-sbcl-is>/contrib.

Anyway, (require 'sb-bsd-sockets) must work before you can compile
swank.

Helmut