On 05/21/2014 10:29 AM, João Távora wrote:
Luís Oliveira luismbo@gmail.com writes:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Paul Bowyer pbowyer@olynet.com wrote:
I've recently tried to use Emacs 24.1.1 which is available from the repository of Linux Mint and I cannot get slime to run properly with it.
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The message I get in the emacs message when I try ALT-x slime window is: define-slime-contrib: Symbol's value as variable is void: --cl---cl-var--11849--
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make compile
I think 24.1 has some issues with lexical binding. João suggests a workaround here: https://github.com/slime/slime/issues/122#issuecomment-36518247.
Specifically Paul, you should attempt to *not* byte-compile slime with "make compile" at all, just byte-compile contrib/slime-presentations.el. Here's what that comment contains:
OK, I've found the solution. You must byte-compile the contrib/slime-presentations.el. So to summarize: If you're on Emacs 24.1 or Emacs 24.2 and using slime-fancy or slime-presentations you must byte-compile just contrib/slime-presentations.el via M-x byte-compile-fileAlternatively, you could upgrade your Emacs to 24.3 if that's feasible for you.
This is a much preferred alternative. have a look at http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-emacs-24-3-on-ubuntu-13-10-13-04-12-10-12-0...
On Ubuntu 14.04 Emacs 24.3 is the default in the official repositories, think. I believe there must be a Mint version based on 14.04.
João
Hello João,
Thanks for the link showing me how to get emacs 24,3. I followed the instructions and it installed without problems. I was still having the same problem starting slime in it until I disabled the instructions to run the test suite in my install script. Then slime loaded without a hitch the first time.
On subsequent loads, I sometimes get a window in emacs named *sldb nil/1* with: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Interrupt thread failed: thread #<THREAD "Swank 44066" FINISHED values: NIL {10033EB6A3}> has exited. [Condition of type SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR]
Restarts: 0: [ABORT] Abort thread (#<THREAD "Swank Sentinel" RUNNING {10033EB2C3}>)
Backtrace: 0: (SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD #<SB-THREAD:THREAD "Swank 44066" FINISHED values: NIL {10033EB6A3}> #<FUNCTION (LAMBDA NIL :IN SB-THREAD:TERMINATE-THREAD) {1001C9062B}>) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I can select abort and it closes the debug window and leaves the slime repl running. This debug window doesn't always occur. If I wait for awhile before restarting emacs and slime, it sometimes comes up without the debug window. More often than not, the debug window comes up.
In my install script, I just delete the slime folder and then do:
git clone https://github.com/slime/slime.git cd ~/my-slime-sandbox/slime #change to doc folder and make the docs #change back to slime folder #then run make clean check make check-fancy
That way I get the latest slime with the test suite run to check for errors. It's a small download so it doesn't take much time to do it that way.
It seems that "make clean check" and/or "make check-fancy" byte-compile many/all of the files in the contrib folder which causes slime to fail when I do ALT-x slime in emacs. I can add a line in my install script to remove all ".elc" files in the contrib folder...
In looking at the slime Makefile, I noticed that make check does a compile...
Also, the test suite fails with: ----------------------------------------------- In toplevel form: slime-fancy.el:9:24:Error: Symbol's function definition is void: defun* make[1]: *** [slime-fancy.elc] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/pfb/my-slime-sandbox/slime/contrib' make: *** [check-fancy] Error 2 -----------------------------------------------
So it currently does no good to run it from my install script. It would be nice to be able to do that so I can check for errors...
I hope this info helps a little,
Paul Bowyer