[slime-devel] Re: .slime

[Jeff Cunningham]

On Wed Nov 23, 2005 at 02:37:32AM +0000, Michael wrote:
> Helmut Eller <heller <at> common-lisp.net> writes:
> 
> > 
> > * Michael [2005-11-21 02:24+0100] writes:
> > 
> > > Unfortunately there is no directory ~/.slime and there are no files
> > > *.fasl other than those accompanying the common lisp install.  So I
> > > am unable to use this fix.
> > 
> > I have no idea how that can be.  Creating the ~/.slime dir is about
> > the first thing we do.  Maybe it's a Gentoo issue?
> > 
> 
> Yes, it is a Gentoo thing.  I received this reply from the 
> Gentoo maintainer:
> 
> "There is no ~/.slime FASL cache because the Gentoo ports are 
> created to use the general cache in /var/cache/common-lisp-controller.
> If you are using SBCL, try removing old FASLs from there using 
> this command: 
> 
>    "rm -rf /var/cache/common-lisp-controller/<your-username>/sbcl/*"
> 
> Unfortunately, after executing this command slime still hangs 
> exactly as before.  
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 


I run slime on Gentoo, but I don't use the Gentoo port. Try installing
slime out of CVS directly. Then it creates the ~/.slime directory like
its supposed to and everything works.

--Jeff Cunningham