Vinay vinay@vmmenon.org writes:

I just updated slime and find that it breaks when I use SBCL.

I get the following error :

compiling file "/usr/local/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp" ...... #<SB-SYS:FD- STREAM for "file /usr/local/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp" {10034495E1}>: Symbol "*RUNTIME-PATHNAME*" not found in the SB-EXT package.; compilation aborted after 0:00:01.966

;; Error while compiling /usr/local/slime/swank-sbcl.lisp: ;; COMPILE-FILE returned NIL. ;; Aborting. ;; *

That's not because it's on Mac, that's because your SBCL is too old. I committed a workaround.