diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index fc5758d71686..af3c1689b552 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sun Nov 28 00:41:44 1999  William Bader (william@nscs.fast.net)
+
+	* gcc_update: Allow patches compressed by bzip2.
+
 1999-10-11  Martin v. Löwis <loewis@informatik.hu-berlin.de>
 
 	* newcvsroot: New file.
diff --git a/contrib/gcc_update b/contrib/gcc_update
index e7fa727d61bd..a25e275025bd 100755
--- a/contrib/gcc_update
+++ b/contrib/gcc_update
@@ -123,6 +123,8 @@ apply_patch () {
 	case "$1" in
 	*gz)
 	    gzip -d -c $1 | patch -p1 ;;
+	*bz2)
+	    bzip2 -d -c $1 | patch -p1 ;;
 	*)
 	    cat $1 | patch -p1 ;;
 	esac