Some days ago I updated SBCL to 1.2.1 and I thought it couldn't hurt to update the quick lisp dist/client as well.
WRONG!
After firing up slime in Emacs, I got this error:
; caught ERROR: ; READ error during COMPILE-FILE: ; ; Symbol "CODE-TRACE-TABLE-OFFSET-SLOT" not found in the SB-VM package. ; ; Line: 1507, Column: 70, File-Position: 60197 ; ; Stream: #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM ; for "file /Users/fyi/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-2.7/swank-sbcl.lisp" ; {1008B07E43}> ; ; compilation unit aborted ; caught 1 fatal ERROR condition ; caught 1 ERROR condition ; printed 1 note ;; ;; Error while compiling /Users/fyi/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/slime-2.7/swank-sbcl.lisp: ;; COMPILE-FILE returned NIL. ;; Aborting. If you're using the quicklisp-slime-helper, so as I, the path to slime comes form the ~/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/installed/systems/swank.txt file. Slime 2.8 should fix that error, but there is no quicklisp distribution that contains slime 2.8.
Coming down to my actual question. Is there a way to specify a library location outside of a quicklisp distribution? Or will I have to wait unit the next distribution has been made available and is there a guaranty a library will be updated in the next distribution?
I am sure I'm missing something, but the whole distribution stuff seems to me more of a hindrance than a help.
