diff --git a/contrib/ChangeLog b/contrib/ChangeLog
index 3ad3fa88127..98b7d0b6d76 100644
--- a/contrib/ChangeLog
+++ b/contrib/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+1998-11-30  Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
+
+	* egcs_update: Only touch files that already exist.
+
 1998-11-29  Alexandre Oliva  <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
 
 	* test_summary (EOF): remove double backslash
diff --git a/contrib/egcs_update b/contrib/egcs_update
index 79b84be1fe0..e689b2b8b6d 100755
--- a/contrib/egcs_update
+++ b/contrib/egcs_update
@@ -88,5 +88,7 @@ for f in gcc/c-parse.y \
 	 gcc/fixinc/inclhack.sh \
 	 gcc/fixinc/fixincl.sh
 do
-	touch $f
+	if [ -f $f ]; then
+		touch $f
+	fi
 done