diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/ChangeLog b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/ChangeLog
index 4c23afa738f..f83a5e0e9b7 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/ChangeLog
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-07-19 Alain Magloire
+
+	Fix for PR 70319: Clearing the console on build.
+	* src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/buildconsole/BuildConsolePartioner.java
+
 2004-07-19 Vladimir Hirsl
 
 	Implementation of HP-UX SOM binary parser page.
diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/buildconsole/BuildConsolePartitioner.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/buildconsole/BuildConsolePartitioner.java
index 5151f39d6c5..074b49fd008 100644
--- a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/buildconsole/BuildConsolePartitioner.java
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/internal/ui/buildconsole/BuildConsolePartitioner.java
@@ -72,8 +72,10 @@ public class BuildConsolePartitioner
 	 */
 
 	public void appendToDocument(final String text, final BuildConsoleStream stream) {
-		if( text.length() == 0 )
-			return;
+
+		// Do not do this, this is the way we clear the console.
+		//		if( text.length() == 0 )
+		//			return;
 		
 		Runnable r = new Runnable() {