Bug#471598: SBCL can't find CLC package

[Ken Harris]

Package: sbcl
Version: 1:1.0.15.0-1


SBCL doesn't have the CLC package available (shouldn't it,
automatically?), but I suspect this is a symptom of bigger problems.


The most visible place I see this is SLIME.  If I try to start SLIME
(with inferior-lisp-program = "sbcl"), I get:

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(progn (load "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"
:verbose t) (funcall (read-from-string "swank-loader:init")) (funcall
(read-from-string "swank:start-server") "/tmp/slime.32222"
:coding-system "iso-latin-1-unix"))

This is SBCL 1.0.15.debian, 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.
*
; loading #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp"

debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "initial thread" {10024C4A91}>:
  SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR at 5087 (line 129, column 45) on
#<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" {10024CF721}>:
    package "CLC" not found

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

(SB-IMPL::READ-TOKEN
 #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
/usr/share/common-lisp/source/slime/swank-loader.lisp" {10024CF721}>
 #\c)
0]
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For comparison, if I set inferior-lisp-program to "clisp", it starts
just fine.  If I start up CLISP, the CLC package is available right
away.

My kernel is "Linux xyz 2.6.24-1-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Feb 11 13:47:43 UTC
2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux"

Versions of other Lisp-related packages:
ii  cl-swank       1:20080223-2   Superior LISP Interaction Mode for Emacs (Li
ii  common-lisp-co 6.14           Common Lisp source and compiler manager
ii  slime          1:20080223-2   Superior LISP Interaction Mode for Emacs


The weird install seen in bug #471147 occurred here, too.  It almost
seems like SBCL isn't getting installed at all, and it's just dumb
luck that anything at all works -- but I don't understand Lisp on
Debian well enough to even know what to look for.



- Ken