diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
index 3658bdafd10..00d454942ea 100644
--- a/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2019-08-05  David Malcolm  <dmalcolm@redhat.com>
+
+	* update_web_docs_svn: Proceed even if the invocation of
+	sphinx fails.
+
 2019-05-04  Gerald Pfeifer  <gerald@pfeifer.com>
 
 	* crontab: Snapshots from trunk are now GCC 10 related.
diff --git a/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_svn b/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_svn
index 4f262fd01e5..16abfee3278 100755
--- a/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_svn
+++ b/maintainer-scripts/update_web_docs_svn
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ done
 #   /usr/bin/sphinx-1.0-build
 # so we need to override SPHINXBUILD with this when invoking "make".
 pushd gcc/gcc/jit/docs
-make SPHINXBUILD=/usr/bin/sphinx-1.0-build html
+make SPHINXBUILD=/usr/bin/sphinx-1.0-build html || true
 popd
 cp -a gcc/gcc/jit/docs/_build/html jit
 mkdir -p $DOCSDIR/jit