slime + clisp + emacs: server disconnects

[Stuart Little]

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 06:49:50PM +0200, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
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> > On 23 Jul 2019, at 15:29, Stuart Little <achirvasub at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Running M-x slime in emacs with 'inferior-lisp-program' set to 'clisp' starts slime fine. I can usually run one evaluation (like say (+ 2 3)), whereupon any other action (pressing 'enter', say) will result in a disconnect:
> > 
> > Lisp connection closed unexpectedly: connection broken by remote peer
> > 
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> Add a ~/.swank.lisp file with a line such as:
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> #+clisp (defparameter swank:*use-dedicated-output-stream*  nil)
> 

This did not change anything in the slime+clisp behavior I described. 

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> > 
> > (a) rlwrap clisp
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> rlwrap shouldn’t be needed with clisp, since it can be compiled with readline. This is the reason why clisp is GPL!
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> > (b) (load "~/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-v2.24/swank-loader.lisp")
> > (c) (swank-loader::init :reload t)
> > (d) (swank:create-server :port 7000)
> > (e) from within emacs: M-x slime-connect with localhost and port 7000
> > 
> > Same behavior as before: I get connected, get to make a few evaluations, get disconnected.
> > 
> > This time around rlwrap tells me (in the terminal where I started clisp):
> > 
> > rlwrap: warning: clisp crashed, killed by SIGSEGV
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> This should not occur.
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> 
> Since you don’t seem to have readline compiled in, perhaps you don’t have libsigsegv compiled in either?
> I would advise you to recompile clisp with those essential libraries!
> 
> Have a look at the script I currently use to compile and install clisp from sources:
> https://github.com/informatimago/install/blob/master/install-pjb-environment#L399
> Don’t use this script indiscriminately, it installs a lot of things!!! Instead, copy and paste what you need.
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> -- 
> __Pascal J. Bourguignon__
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