diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index 773bf6b21d26..89d8a6f5997b 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-08-01  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
+
+	* update_web_docs_libstdcxx_svn: Do not compress generated .html
+	files any more.
+
 2010-06-24  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
 
 	* update_web_docs_svn: Also pass -I option pointing to ada/ source
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_libstdcxx_svn b/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_libstdcxx_svn
index 05afbe5a7108..514243ddfc23 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_libstdcxx_svn
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_libstdcxx_svn
@@ -37,11 +37,6 @@ svn -q export $SVNROOT/trunk/$GETTHIS doc
 cd doc
 rm -f Makefile
 
-# build a compressed copy of the HTML, preserve directory structure
-for file in `find . -name "*.html" -print`; do
-    gzip --best < $file > $file.gz
-done
-
 # copy the tree to the onlinedocs area, preserve directory structure
 #find . -depth -print | cpio -pdv $WWWDIR
 find . -depth -print | cpio -pd $WWWDIR > /dev/null 2>&1