diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index cef572bfbf9..ba125775517 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-03-14  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+	* gcc_release (announce_snapshot): Use changedir instead of
+	plain cd.
+	
 2004-02-10  Arnaud Charlet  <charlet@act-europe.fr>
 
 	* gcc_release: Add libada as part of ADA_DIRS.
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
index bb824426b0a..a9718ae71b9 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
@@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ announce_snapshot() {
   inform "Updating links and READMEs on the FTP server"
   
   TEXT_DATE=`date --date=$DATE +%B\ %d,\ %Y`
-  cd ~ftp/pub/gcc/snapshots
+  changedir ~ftp/pub/gcc/snapshots
   sed -e "s%@DATE@%$DATE%g" \
     -e "s%@TEXT_DATE@%$TEXT_DATE%g" \
     -e "s%@LAST_DATE@%$LAST_DATE%g" \