On Tue, Aug 11, 1998 at 02:14:10PM -0400, James A. Treacy wrote:
> If someone knows how to have make only try to build a target if the source
> exists, then I'd go for each subdir having its own Makefile. Under the
> current system translators only need to edit the main Makefile. We want
> to minimize the amount of work that translators need to do.

        Something like 
        
WMLFILES := $(wildcard *.wml)
HTMLFILES := $(WMLFILES:.wml=.html)

all: $(HTMLFILES)

        perhaps?
        
        (I recently implemented a big CVS'ed site,
        it has one checked-out copy of the site that is
        updated, and run with makefiles like that..)
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