With a current SLIME on Windows XP with clisp 2.32, I was unable to start a session if I M-x slime RET on a different drive from the slime sources. I saw error messages looking like this:

Compiling file C:\cc\slime\swank.lisp ... *** - nonexistent directory: #P"U:\cc\slime\"

Slime was losing the drive when making pathnames. The changes below fix my problem on clisp, and I _think_ they should be harmless on systems without devices.

cvs server: Diffing . Index: swank-loader.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank-loader.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.19 diff -u -r1.19 swank-loader.lisp --- swank-loader.lisp 9 Mar 2004 19:35:36 -0000 1.19 +++ swank-loader.lisp 19 Mar 2004 19:17:29 -0000 @@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ (merge-pathnames name (make-pathname :type type + :device + (pathname-device + (or *compile-file-pathname* *load-pathname* + *default-pathname-defaults*)) :directory (pathname-directory (or *compile-file-pathname* *load-pathname* Index: swank.lisp =================================================================== RCS file: /project/slime/cvsroot/slime/swank.lisp,v retrieving revision 1.150 diff -u -r1.150 swank.lisp --- swank.lisp 18 Mar 2004 21:57:14 -0000 1.150 +++ swank.lisp 19 Mar 2004 19:17:29 -0000 @@ -286,6 +286,7 @@ (let* ((here (or *compile-file-truename* *load-truename*)) (changelog (make-pathname :name "ChangeLog" + :device (pathname-device here) :directory (pathname-directory here) :host (pathname-host here))) (date (with-open-file (file changelog :direction :input)