From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 20:39:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5434216A421 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:39:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (pukruppa.net [213.146.114.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9835C13C458 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:39:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from pukruppa.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l8RKdEPT046370; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:39:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Received: from localhost (ulrich@localhost) by pukruppa.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) with ESMTP id l8RKdDYw046367; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:39:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ulrich@pukruppa.net) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:39:13 +0200 (CEST) From: "P.U.Kruppa" X-X-Sender: ulrich@small To: Andreas Davour In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070927223851.F97307@small> References: <20070926160312.W97307@small> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sbcl/lisp question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:39:17 -0000 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