[slime-devel] Problem with SBCL on Debian

28 Aug 2005

      Hi to all,

Can anybody help with this problem which happens on that kind
of system:

Debian Sarge Linux Kernel 2.6.11
SBCL 0.8.16
SLIME (both the current "stable" and CVS versions were tried)

Error related to swank-sbcl.lisp:

  Unknown foreign symbol: "linux_no_threads_p"

The related part of the file:

;;; TCP Server

(defimplementation preferred-communication-style ()
  (if (and (member :sb-thread *features*)
           #+linux
           (not (sb-alien:extern-alien "linux_no_threads_p" sb-alien:boolean)))
      :spawn
      :fd-handler))

When #-linux is put instead of #+linux the error is skipped
but then again:

debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread 9703:
  There is no applicable method for the generic function
    #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION SWANK-BACKEND:SPAWN (0)>
  when called with arguments
    (# :NAME "Swank").

Any ideas or tips for solving this problem?

Thanks in advance.

Emre Sevinc