slime on github

[Jeff Cunningham]

On 01/08/2014 04:26 PM, Paul Bowyer wrote:
> Hello Helmut,
>
> I've recently become aware the slime is now on github, so I downloaded 
> and installed a copy. It ran, but there is a window in my copy of 
> emacs-23.4.1 filled with warnings related to ert.el which indicate 
> that it can't be found.
>
>  A list of the warnings:
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.2
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.3
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.4
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.5
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.6
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.7
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.9
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.10
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.11
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.12
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.13
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.14
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.15
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test symbol-at-point.16
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test sexp-at-point.1
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test narrowing
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test find-definition
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (find-definition.2 
> (:fails-for allegro lispworks))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (find-definition.3 
> (:fails-for abcl allegro clisp lispworks sbcl ecl))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-symbol
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test arglist
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (compile-defun 
> (:fails-for allegro lispworks clisp ccl))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (compile-file 
> (:fails-for allegro lispworks clisp))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test utf-8-source
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test async-eval-debugging
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> unwind-to-previous-sldb-level
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test loop-interrupt-quit
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> loop-interrupt-continue-interrupt-quit
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test interactive-eval
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> report-condition-with-circular-list
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> interrupt-bubbling-idiot
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> (interrupt-encode-message (:style :sigio))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test inspector
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test macroexpand
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test indentation
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test break
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (break2 
> (:fails-for cmucl allegro ccl))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> locally-bound-debugger-hook
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test end-of-file
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test interrupt-at-toplevel
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test interrupt-in-debugger
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test flow-control
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test sbcl-world-lock
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> (disconnect-one-connection (:style :spawn))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> disconnect-and-reconnect
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test package-updating
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-test
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test (repl-test-2 
> (:fails-for allegro))
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-return
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-read
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-read-lines
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test repl-type-ahead
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> interrupt-in-blocking-read
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> move-around-and-be-nasty
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test form-up-to-point.1
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-symbol*
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test complete-form
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test font-lock-magic
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test enclosing-context.1
> Warning (emacs): No ert.el found: not defining test 
> find-local-definitions.1
>
> I looked around for a copy of ert.el and ert-x.el and I found a couple 
> of files that looked reasonable, but they won't load so I wonder if 
> you know how to get those files that are compatible with emacs-23.4.1?
>
> The github copy of slime seems to load OK, but I haven't really tried 
> using it for development with the warnings I was getting.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Bowyer
>
>
I ran into something similar and it provided the impetus to build emacs 
24.3. That fixed everything. So you might just want to upgrade your 
version of emacs.

Regards,
--Jeff


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