This was no longer being done as Jason found the generic rule was
causing problems with GNU Make 4.0, and removed it. (I wonder how he
was getting the build to succeed, then?)
curl -sSf "${PP2_URL}" -o $@.tmp
mv -f $@.tmp $@
+$(DEST)/NEWS: NEWS
+ rm -f $@
+ cp $? $@
+ chmod 444 $@
+
+$(DEST)/VERSION: VERSION
+ rm -f $@
+ cp $? $@
+ chmod 444 $@
+
release: $(RELEASABLE)
@if [ -f ${DEST}/releases/mkws-$(VERSION).js ]; then \
echo "*** There is already a release $(VERSION)"; \