Re: Report issue concerning melpa package

On 8/12/26 8:02 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> Charles Millar <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>>>
>>> It appears that you have installed Slime version
>>> 20260808.2219.  If you do not need the latest development
>>> version, then you could install the latest stable version,
>>> 2.32, which is available in the ‘melpa-stable’ archive,
>>> instead.
>>>
>>> The melpa-stable archive is at https://stable.melpa.org/packages/.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you. I did as you suggested - still the same problem
>>
>> ../../../usr/local/share/slime/slime.el: Warning: Obsolete calling
>> convention for ‘sit-for’
>> internal-macroexpand-for-load: Eager macro-expansion failure:
>> (invalid-function static-if)
>>
>> I confirmed that version 2.32 was installed.
>>
> 
> Something odd is happening there.  The file that is being
> compiled, slime.el, is not in
> /home/charlie01/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-2.32/.  Instead, it is
> in ../../../usr/local/share/slime.  What process are you
> using to install Slime from the melpa-stable archive?
> 
> I have checked the ‘slime.el’ that comes with Slime version
> 2.32 and found that there is no instance of ‘static-if’ in
> it.  Here are the four lines from the top of ‘slime.el’ for
> Slime 2.32:
> 
>    ;; URL: https://github.com/slime/slime
>    ;; Package-Requires: ((emacs "24.3") (macrostep "0.9"))
>    ;; Keywords: languages, lisp, slime
>    ;; Version: 2.32
> 
> The standard installation process using Emacs should install
> Slime 2.32 in your directory:
> 
>     /home/charlie01/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-2.32/
> 
> You should be able to read ‘slime.el’ into an Emacs buffer
> and confirm that it contains the lines, above.  Then check
> the files that you have in ../../../usr/local/share/slime to
> see what version is listed in the ‘slime.el’ in that
> directory.
> 
First I neglected to mention that I am using Debian testing

I did install from stable.melpa and when that failed, I removed slime by 
using the package manager and then cloned from git and added
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/slime")
   (require 'slime-autoloads)
to my init.

To confirm that the stable.melpa version (Slime 2.32) has the same 
errors, today, I commented out
  (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/slime")
  (require 'slime-autoloads)


and again installed slime-2.32 from stable.melpa.

Results were:

Compiling file 
/home/charlie01/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-2.32/contrib/slime-fancy.el at Thu 
Aug 13 07:19:37 2026
slime-fancy.el:3:2: Error: Eager macro-expansion failure: 
(invalid-function static-if)

Compiling file 
/home/charlie01/.emacs.d/elpa/slime-2.32/contrib/test/slime-macrostep-tests.el 
at Thu Aug 13 07:19:44 2026
slime-macrostep-tests.el:29:2: Error: Eager macro-expansion failure: 
(invalid-function static-if)

One other observation- while looking over the buffer file list I noticed 
that the slime-cl-indent-test.txt was opened.