Rove compilation fails using SBCL 2.4.4 and 2.4.5

[dylangleason]

I am not sure when this started occurring, perhaps after an update to SBCL via the arch repositories, but I noticed that unit tests for a project I put down for a while and then revisited are now failing, which I subsequently tracked down to a compilation issue with rove:

CL-USER> (ql:quickload "rove")
To load "rove":
  Load 1 ASDF system:
    rove
; Loading "rove"
; 
; caught ERROR:
;   READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
;   
;     Lock on package SB-DI violated when interning DEBUG-VAR-INFO while in package
;     DISSECT.
;   See also:
;     The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
;   
;     (in form starting at line: 38, column: 0, position: 1539)
; 
; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 2 fatal ERROR conditions
;   caught 1 ERROR condition
* ; Evaluation aborted on #<UIOP/LISP-BUILD:COMPILE-FILE-ERROR {1005351683}>.

• SBCL version: 2.4.5
• Quicklisp Dist version: 2023-10-21

UPDATE: downgrading to SBCL 2.4.1 resolved the issue. It appears the issue also exists in 2.4.4 as well.

[fukamachi]

The error is because of an incompatibility between SBCL's internal API and a library "dissect".
It has happened since SBCL 2.4.2, and it will be resolved by updating dissect or downgrading SBCL.

See Shinmera/dissect#18.