On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:51:03 -0500, Brian Mastenbrook bmastenb@cs.indiana.edu wrote:
On Oct 10, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Ari Johnson wrote:
I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and sbcl 0.8.12, using GNU Emacs 21.3. The sldb debugger fails to pop up when an error occurs, and instead I have to interact with the sbcl debugger in the REPL buffer. Am I missing a prerequisite somewhere? I threw slime in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime and it loads fine. The pertinent part of my .emacs follows, and I then do M-x slime to start it up. Thanks to anyone who can help me out on this.
Hi Ari,
I think the issue is that the SBCL you're running is too old for recent versions of SLIME. The most recent SBCL binary on http://www.sbcl.org/ is 0.8.14 (paging antifuchs!); try downloading and using this.
Looks like FreeBSD is behind - not all that surprising. I try to stick to the ports tree because then upgrades are more or less automated and I don't have to manually version-track, but I'll give that a shot.
I'm guessing your SLIME compile never actually finished, and that's why not everything works right.
SLIME works fine on my Arch Linux box, which has SBCL 0.8.14, so I guess that's possible. Did slime have problems on SBCL 0.8.12, or has it just been changed to only work with the newer version?
Thanks for the quick response.