* stephen.3.odonnell@bt.com [2006-01-29 12:30+0100] writes:
*** - READ: input stream #<INPUT BUFFERED FILE-STREAM CHARACTER #P"/home/sodonnel/.slime/fasl/clisp-2.38-unix-pc386/swank-clisp.fas" @408> ends within a token after multiple escape character
This looks like a miscompiled fasl file. SLIME creates a .slime subdir in your home directory and places its fasl files there. Try to delete that directory before you try again with CVS SLIME.
The problem is that SLIME tries to compile as little as possible and we compare the file modification time of the fasl and source files to decide whether something needs to be recompiled. I guess that you tried the 1.2.1 version first (and that version doesn't work with clisp 2.38) and the broken fasl files are still there because the modification time is newer than the source in CVS.
Maybe we should put fasl files for different SLIME versions in different directories.
Helmut.