[Slime-devel] I think I need a little help

[Luís Oliveira]

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Paul Bowyer <pbowyer at olynet.com> wrote:
> I've recently tried to use Emacs 24.1.1 which is available from the
> repository of Linux Mint and I cannot get slime to run properly with it.
[...]
> The message I get in the emacs message when I try ALT-x slime window is:
> define-slime-contrib: Symbol's value as variable is void:
> --cl---cl-var--11849--
[...]
> make compile

I think 24.1 has some issues with lexical binding. João suggests a
workaround here:
<https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/122#issuecomment-36518247>.
Alternatively, you could upgrade your Emacs to 24.3 if that's feasible
for you.

HTH,

-- 
Luís Oliveira
http://kerno.org/~luis/