<span class="gI">I've been trying to get Clozure CCL to work with SLIME, and continue to run into numerous problems with more recent versions.<br><br>In the process of upgrading SLIME, I have more problems with older versions of SBCL and newer versions of SLIME.<br>
None of these problems occurred with the repository versions of SLIME.<br><br>I have also had similar errors with other lisp implementations (older versions) that had worked: CLISP, GCL, CMUCL etc.<br><br>Here is my current system:<br>
Ubuntu 9.10: Kernel Version 2.6.28.19<br>Emacs 23<br>Slime: CVS source as of 3/7/10<br>Clozure CCL Version 1.7-dev-r14664M-trunk<br>SBCL 1.0.29<br><br>Steps taken:<br>1. Purge from system repository versions of SLIME + SWANK. <br>
SBCL 1.0.29 and CMUCL (Python 1.1) worked with these.<br>2. Install most recent version of SLIME, CCL, SBCL<br><br>Results:<br>Slime Message when CCL invoked:<br><br>; Warning: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:<br>
; (ACTIVATE-STEPPING ADD-FD-HANDLER ADD-SIGIO-HANDLER<br>; BACKGROUND-SAVE-IMAGE DUP EXEC-IMAGE MAKE-FD-STREAM<br>; REMOVE-FD-HANDLERS REMOVE-SIGIO-HANDLERS SLDB-BREAK-AT-START<br>; SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN SLDB-STEP-INTO SLDB-STEP-NEXT SLDB-STEP-OUT)<br>
; While executing: SWANK-BACKEND::WARN-UNIMPLEMENTED-INTERFACES, in process listener(1).<br><br>It then drops me down into Emacs inferior-lisp.<br><br>Slime Message when SBCL 1.0.29 invoked:<br><br>STYLE-WARNING: redefining EMACS-INSPECT (#<BUILT-IN-CLASS T>) in DEFMETHOD<br>
; loading #P"/.slime/fasl/2011-02-24/sbcl-1.0.29.11.debian-linux-x86/swank-gray.fasl"<br>STYLE-WARNING:<br> Implicitly creating new generic function STREAM-READ-CHAR-WILL-HANG-P.<br>; loading #P"/.slime/fasl/2011-02-24/sbcl-1.0.29.11.debian-linux-x86/swank-match.fasl"<br>
; loading #P"/.slime/fasl/2011-02-24/sbcl-1.0.29.11.debian-linux-x86/swank-rpc.fasl"<br>; loading #P"/.slime/fasl/2011-02-24/sbcl-1.0.29.11.debian-linux-x86/swank.fasl"<br>WARNING: These Swank interfaces are unimplemented:<br>
(DISASSEMBLE-FRAME SLDB-BREAK-AT-START SLDB-BREAK-ON-RETURN)<br><br>Again, Slime drops down into inferior-lisp mode.<br><br>Any ideas what needs to be done?<br></span>