Quoting Helmut Eller (heller@common-lisp.net):
$ clbuild dumpcore slime $ echo 'START_SLIME_USING_CORE=42' >>clbuild.conf $ clbuild slime -nw -q
Seems to work for me.
I'm sorry my reproduction recipe doesn't work for you, but thank you for trying anyway.
Unfortunately I can reproduce this failure mode reliably using current clbuild from darcs, current slime from CVS, current SBCL from CVS, and emacs 22.1.1 as included with Debian on AMD 64.
Since clbuild doesn't read ~/.sbclrc by default, and emacs -q doesn't read ~/.emacs, I'm unsure which details of my environment would affect this problem.
What's the right way to do this with current slime?
Reading something like http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html would be a good start.
I'm looking for documentation explaining swank's behaviour when included in a core file, and details about how slime-backend needs to be set up to make this configuration work.
d.