[Openmcl-devel] Problems with asdf-install

[Ralph Richard Cook]

Thanks, changing the defvar's to defparameter's got it.


On Jan 3, 2006, at 12:55 AM, Gary Byers wrote:

>
> The short version of the story is that if you save an image with
> Slime/Swank loaded into it in OpenMCL, Swank's notion of the values
> of the "real" standard stream values is yesterday's news (established
> before the SAVE-APPLICATION and never reset.)  Around the time that
> SLIME finishes compiling/loading itself, it apparently sets  
> *TERMINAL-IO*
> to its (stale) notion of what the "real" *TERMINAL-IO* should be,  
> and that can't work.  (It's not necessary to use ASDF-INSTALL or to
> try to load PASERVE or to do much of anything else in order to trigger
> this.)
>
> I can think of a few ways around this; which way or ways would work
> best depend on whether invoking SLIME always tries to load the swank
> stuff even if it's already present in the image.  (If so, a very
> simple fix would be to change the DEFVARs in swank.lisp's
> SETUP-STREAM-INDIRECTION to DEFPARAMETERs.)