[racket-dev] sticky: bad

The new makefile target to re-use the previous `PKGS' value is `again'.

At Mon, 8 Jul 2013 08:28:40 -0400, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt wrote:
> What about a `make` target (maybe named `rebuild`) that remembers the
> previous PKGS setting? That seems a little less stateful, and would be
> perfect for the reasons that led me to ask for sticky mode.
> 
> Sam
> 
> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> > I'm happy to enable sticky mode only when the `make' line is something
> > like
> >
> >   make PKGS="..." STICKY_MODE=on
> >
> > Any objections?
> >
> > At Sat, 6 Jul 2013 09:43:46 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
> >> I just got horribly confused because somehow I messed up passing a manual
> >> command-line to link-all.rkt and then nothing was working right. (It took
> >> me embarrassingly long to remember this sticky thing and then get unsticky.)
> >>
> >> So, can we change things so that "make" in the top-level doesn't use
> >> stickyness? Maybe add a new target "make stuck" or something that people
> >> who like this can use and so we avoid unexpected state?
> >>
> >> Robby
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