Luca Capello luca@pca.it writes:
Actually, a Debian package was already prepared by Sean Champ [1] and it works well.
I'm having one issue. I've installed the debian package but I want to actually run slime from CVS. I think it should be enough to just put the CVS slime first in my load-path before loading, but this part of the debian init is causing me trouble:
(setq slime-backend "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp")
Normally the CL code is found relative to the Elisp, but if you install the debian package then it sets an absolute path to the package-installed Lisp code.
I understand that something like this is needed for the debian package to install the CL files in a different directory to the Elisp and still be able to find it. I wonder if there's a nice fix to keep this file layout but also allow a newer SLIME to "shadow" the debian one via the load-path?