diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9208dce..70000d4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ members.xml:
 	echo '<memberlist>' >> $@
 	ceoquery memberlist | sort | awk -F \| '{ name = $$1; program = $$2; userid = $$3; gsub(/&/, "\\&amp;", name); gsub(/&/, "\\&amp;", program); gsub(/"/, "\\&quot;", name); gsub(/"/, "\\&quot;", program); print "<member name=\"" name "\" program=\"" program "\" userid=\"" userid "\" />"; }' >> $@
 	echo '</memberlist>' >> $@
+
+$(OUTDIR)index.html: events.xml news.xml
diff --git a/common.mk.in b/common.mk.in
index 7aa536f..8d16044 100644
--- a/common.mk.in
+++ b/common.mk.in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ XSLTARGS=g_date=`date -I` g_time=`date +%H:%M:%S` g_outdir="$(OUTDIR)" \
 	g_datetime="`date --rfc-3339=seconds`" g_pwd="$$(pwd)" g_root="$(ROOT)"
 CLASSPATH = /users/www/saxon8/saxon8.jar
 
-$(OUTDIR)%.html: %.xml $(ROOT)/csc.dtd $(ROOT)/xsl/*.xsl $(ROOT)/events.xml $(ROOT)/news.xml directory.xml
+$(OUTDIR)%.html: %.xml $(ROOT)/csc.dtd $(ROOT)/xsl/*.xsl directory.xml
 	java -classpath $(CLASSPATH) net.sf.saxon.Transform -o $@ $< $(ROOT)/xsl/html.xsl $(XSLTARGS)
 	sed -i 's| xmlns=""||' $@
 
diff --git a/events/Makefile b/events/Makefile
index cce7021..79f1c49 100644
--- a/events/Makefile
+++ b/events/Makefile
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ include ../common.mk
 
 build:
 	sed -i 's| xmlns=""||' $(OUTDIR)*.html
+
+$(OUTDIR)index.html: ../events.xml
diff --git a/news/Makefile b/news/Makefile
index 7832242..4ee1e4d 100644
--- a/news/Makefile
+++ b/news/Makefile
@@ -4,3 +4,5 @@ include ../common.mk
 
 build:
 	sed -i 's| xmlns=""||' $(OUTDIR)*.html
+
+$(OUTDIR)index.html: ../news.xml