diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/build b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/build
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..e83535562d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/build
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+. config/options $1
+
+setup_toolchain host
+
+cd $PKG_BUILD
+./configure --host=$HOST_NAME \
+            --build=$HOST_NAME \
+            --prefix=$ROOT/$TOOLCHAIN \
+            --disable-rpath \
+            --with-gnu-ld
+
+# The configure system causes Bison to be built without support for
+# internationalization of error messages if a bison program is not already in
+# $PATH. The following addition will correct this:
+  echo '#define YYENABLE_NLS 1' >> lib/config.h
+
+make
+make install
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e289f8b190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/toolchain/devel/bison/meta
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2011 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  This Program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+#  any later version.
+#
+#  This Program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.tv; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+#  the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+#  http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="bison"
+PKG_VERSION="2.4.3"
+PKG_REV="1"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/"
+PKG_URL="http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
+PKG_DEPENDS=""
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="ccache"
+PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
+PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="bison: The GNU general-purpose parser generator"
+PKG_LONGDESC="Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts a grammar description for an LALR(1) context-free grammar into a C program to parse that grammar. Once you are proficient with Bison, you may use it to develop a wide range of language parsers, from those used in simple desk calculators to complex programming languages. Bison is upward compatible with Yacc: all properly-written Yacc grammars ought to work with Bison with no change. Anyone familiar with Yacc should be able to use Bison with little trouble. You need to be fluent in C programming in order to use Bison or to understand this manual."
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
diff --git a/packages/toolchain/meta b/packages/toolchain/meta
index e14bcd37c5..38af93b87b 100644
--- a/packages/toolchain/meta
+++ b/packages/toolchain/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.openelec.tv"
 PKG_URL=""
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="make sed pkg-config automake autoconf intltool gcc-final flex cmake jam yasm nasm"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="make sed pkg-config automake autoconf intltool gcc-final bison flex cmake jam yasm nasm"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="toolchain/devel"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="toolchain: OpenELEC.tv' toolchain"