diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index db9218316cea081c7af74d6752ed35ae6475039d..c1d97cc565d57365b54cdd809fff2565ec0ba053 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2004-05-17  Kelley Cook  <kcook@gcc.gnu.org>
+
+	* gcc_release (build_sources): Change CRCs from brik to md5sum.
+
 2004-05-16  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
 
 	* crontab: Add GCC 3.5 snapshots, currenty run on Sundays.
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
index eda1adc077adfe6bec942eee902087e6074b3b31..49aac5a32f1fdcab0e0847b8adec2c9e708abc65 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/gcc_release
@@ -249,14 +249,8 @@ EOF
   # Move message catalogs to source directory.
   mv ../objdir/gcc/po/*.gmo gcc/po/
 
-  # Create a `.brik' file to use for checking the validity of the
-  # release.
-  changedir "${SOURCE_DIRECTORY}"
-  BRIK_FILE=`mktemp /tmp/gcc_release.XXXXXXX`
-  ((find . -type f | sort > $BRIK_FILE) && \
-       brik -Gb -f ${BRIK_FILE} > .brik && \
-       rm ${BRIK_FILE}) || \
-     error "Could not compute brik checksum"
+  # Create a "MD5SUMS" file to use for checking the validity of the release.
+  find . -type f |sed -e 's:^\./::' -e '/MD5SUMS/d' |sort |xargs md5sum >MD5SUMS
 }
 
 # Buid a single tarfile.  The first argument is the name of the name