sbcl/lisp question

[P.U.Kruppa]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Andreas Davour wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> while playing with SBCL and the editor slime, I found that slime needs some 
>> ("fast loadable") files in /usr/local/lib/sbcl/.. (with .fasl suffix) to be 
>> set executable.
>> 
>> Was this forgotten by the port authors or is there some tricky LISP way to 
>> do it automatically (i.e. is it a bug or a feature)?
>
> A FASL file is a compiled lisp file. If you check in that folder there will 
> probably be another file there with the same name and the extension .lisp 
> instead. There is no need to have a fasl file, the lisp system can load and 
> compile the .lisp files as needed. If you feel like speed up the load process 
> you can of course compile those files. Note that for the files to be saved 
> you must have write permission in that folder, so the easiest way might be to 
> start sbcl as root and then it will load and compile the files to FASL. Next 
> time you start sbcl the lisp will load the compiled files.
>
> If there's more, or you just forgot to tell us the error messages contained 
> aditional problems, please repost with all the errors inlcuded.
>
> Hope that helped. More specific lisp questions can be taken to #lisp @ 
> freenode.net where I and others chat and answer questions.
Thanks,

Uli.

>
> /Andreas
>



Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Wuppertal
Germany