There is no version of app-emacs/slime on the main portage tree that runs with the stable (amd64) sbcl. I did not try (yet) with ~amd64 sbcl. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: The swank compilation fails, when starting slime from emacs. Expected Results: slime should open the LISP REPL in emacs Portage 2.2.8-r2 (default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.12.13-gentoo-ir1-20140511 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.13-gentoo-ir1-20140511-x86_64-AMD_Phenom-tm-_II_X4_965_Processor-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 4047244 total, 385184 free KiB Swap: 3903788 total, 3580660 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 07:00:01 +0000 ld GNU gold (GNU Binutils 2.23.2) 1.11 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p49 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.12.2-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.6.4, 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.13 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.19-r1 Repositories: gentoo finnish sunrise steam-overlay lisp poly-c emacs x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox usersync" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/finnish /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/steam /var/lib/layman/lisp /var/lib/layman/poly-c /var/lib/layman/emacs /usr/local/portage" USE="X aac aalib acl alsa amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx djvu dri dvi emacs flac fortran gdbm gif iconv ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k lame latex libcaca mmx modules mp3 mp4 mpeg multilib ncurses nls nptl ogg openmp pam pcre png pnm qt3support readline session sse sse2 ssl steamruntime tcpd theora tiff unicode vorbis x264 zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" DVB_CARDS="tda10045 tda10046" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse aiptek" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en pt fi" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
Created attachment 385670 [details] SWANK compilation log from slime 2.0_p20101103 inside emacs 24.3.1
Depending on the version of slime, it may be possible to start slime even if the compilation drops to the debugger (by manually instructing the debugger to proceed), but this is not true for all versions of slime.
app-emacs/slime-2.0_p20130930 from the lisp overlay works with sbcl-1.1.18 (from the main tree)
Thanks for reporting, you could try unmasking app-emacs/slime-2.11 which I just added to portage (and the lisp overlay).
Apologies for taking so long to reply: I unmasked slime-2.11 on my machines and it works.
No longer in the tree.
