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haziz
haziz

Reputation: 13582

SLIME and SWANK Fail on a MIPS Architecture

I am trying to use Emacs with SLIME and Swank on an Imagination Creator CI20 Mips board to learn Common Lisp. I am using SBCL and Clisp as my compiler/interpreter (mainly SBCL which is usually set as the inferior-lisp-mode); I did however test this with both SBCL and Clisp set as the inferior-lisp-mode and it fails with both. I tried to run SLIME but it invariably fails while trying to load or compile a Swank file. The error message from one of the attempts suggests that it is having difficulty with the architecture (Mips - little endian). I am running the default install of Debian 7 Wheezy (Mipsel) the board comes with.

I tried this with SLIME installed via apt-get from the Debian repository, another time with the Melpa install of SLIME and lastly another attempt with the Github git repository (latest) of SLIME. They all fail though the error messages are sometimes subtly different. It fails with both Emacs 23 and 24.

I am attaching the error messages/blurb from my attempt with the Github repository of SLIME, using SBCL as the compiler. SBCL was installed from the SBCL repository since Mipsel Wheezy seems not to have it in the Debian repository. It does seem to be a somewhat older version but is the latest binary for the Mips architecture on the SBCL website. SBCL runs fine as a REPL from the command line.

(progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" :verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall (read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.4482"))

This is SBCL 1.0.28, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* 
; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
WARNING:
   No architecture feature found in (POWERPC PPC X86 X86-64 X86_64 AMD64 I686
                                     I586 I486 PC386 IAPX386 SPARC64 SPARC
                                     HPPA64 HPPA ARM PENTIUM3 PENTIUM4 JAVA-1.4
                                     JAVA-1.5 JAVA-1.6 JAVA-1.7).

debugger invoked on a SB-C::INPUT-ERROR-IN-COMPILE-FILE:
  READ failure in COMPILE-FILE:
    SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 5799 (line 150, column 52) on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" {50007F71}>:
      Symbol "APPLY-OUTPUT-TRANSLATIONS" not found in the ASDF package.

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-C::READ-FOR-COMPILE-FILE
 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file /usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" {50007F71}>
 5418)
0]

Upvotes: 0

Views: 258

Answers (1)

Xach
Xach

Reputation: 11854

That version of SBCL is too old to work with current SLIME. Try building and installing a new version of SBCL with the sources from http://www.sbcl.org and see if that improves the situation.

Upvotes: 3

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