Re: don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM.

That SBCL version is 4 years old, isn't it?  Can you try with a more recent
one?

Cheers,
Luís

On Tue, May 16, 2017, 21:02 lvalais <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, I'm trying to run slime for the first time with sbcl.  Previously,
> I was using clisp. I'm using for now the pre-compiled version of sbcl.
> When I try to start slime, I get the errors shown below.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Kind Regards
> Leo
>
> $ sbcl
> sbcl
> This is SBCL 1.1.6.0-3c5581a, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp")
> (load "~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank-loader.lisp")
>
> T
> * (swank-loader:init)
> (swank-loader:init)
> ASDF could not load sb-bsd-sockets because
> Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets from
> pathname
> /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd:
>     don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM.
> ;;
> ;; Error compiling ~/.emacs.d/lisp/slime/swank/sbcl.lisp:
> ;;   Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets
> from
> ;;   pathname /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd:
> ;;      don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM
> ;;
>
> debugger invoked on a LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR:
>    Error while trying to load definition for system sb-bsd-sockets from
> pathname
>    /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd:
>       don't recognize component type REQUIRE-SYSTEM
>
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
>
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>    0: [RETRY                                 ] Retry EVAL of current
> toplevel form.
>    1: [CONTINUE                              ] Ignore error and continue
> loading file "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd".
>    2: [ABORT                                 ] Abort loading file
> "/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/sb-bsd-sockets.asd".
>    3: [REINITIALIZE-SOURCE-REGISTRY-AND-RETRY] Retry finding system
>                                                sb-bsd-sockets after
>                                                reinitializing the
>                                                source-registry.
>    4:                                          Exit debugger, returning
> to top
>                                                level.
>
> ((FLET #:LAMBDA2229 :IN ASDF::LOAD-SYSDEF)
> #<ASDF::FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR {12B12229}>)
> 0]
>
>