Re: [slime-devel] Abort loading file "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

* Irène Durand [2011-12-09 14:43] writes:

Hello,

I am teaching Lisp for a weak in Vietnam. One of my students could not start Slime although he had the same environment (Ubuntu, Emacs23, SBCL) as his other colleagues. He has installed SBCL and Slime using "apt-get".

All the things I usually try usually in the .emacs file did not work so I am turning to you for help.

Below the trace of the loading of Slime. I thank you in advance, Irène Durand

Le 09/12/11 08:37, Thien Sy a écrit :

(progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
:verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall
(read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.3613" :coding-system
"iso-latin-1-unix"))

This is SBCL 1.0.50.0.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* 
; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE in thread #
<THREAD

"initial thread" RUNNING

{AA65749}>:
  READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
    SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 5611 (line 143, column 52) on #
<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM

for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

{AA713D1}>:
      package "ASDF" not found

Installing the cl-asdf Debian package would probably solve this problem.

The Debian maintainers modified swank-loader.lisp and added this "feature". So the Debian bug tracker would be the right place to report this issue (I think they fixed it already).

Helmut