Hi, Not sure what's going on, but I needed to do this to start latest CVS of SBCL and Slime just now:
cvs diff: Diffing . Index: swank.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.414 diff -r1.414 swank.lisp 1245c1245 < :wire-protocol-version ,(wire-protocol-version))) ---
:style ,(wire-protocol-version)))
I'm running Emacs 23.0.0.1 btw. - GTK+ and XFT is a must.