I am having troubles with the filename handling in slime. The load path to slime ends up being something like this:

~/Tools/UPSTREAM/slime/...

which the lisp (including both CMUCL and SBCL) doesn't like.

The following patch fixes the problem for me:

------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #@ defun #. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)