Re: Report issue concerning melpa package

Charles Millar <[email protected]> writes:

>> 
> 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.
>

1. A search (M-x rgrep) of the .el source files for Slime
version 2.32 yields no instances of the macro ‘static-if’.

2. C-h f static-if shows that this macro was added in Emacs
30.1.  What does M-x emacs-version tell you about the
version of Emacs that you are running?

3. If you are using Emacs 30, then you could try:
   a. Exit your running Emacs.
   b. Rename your Emacs initialization file.
   c. Start Emacs.
   d. Set the value of ‘package-archives’ to include the
      melpa-stable archive:
      M-x customize-option package-archives
   e. Using the package manager, install Slime 2.32.
      - C-h P slime RET
      - Click on the Install button in the Help window

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