diff --git a/tools/bison/Makefile b/tools/bison/Makefile
index 16947c7d4..50d836691 100644
--- a/tools/bison/Makefile
+++ b/tools/bison/Makefile
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
 include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=bison
-PKG_VERSION:=2.3
+PKG_VERSION:=2.4.3
 
-PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@GNU/$(PKG_NAME)
-PKG_MD5SUM:=22327efdd5080e2b1acb6e560a04b43a
-PKG_CAT:=zcat
+PKG_MD5SUM:=c1d3ea81bc370dbd43b6f0b2cd21287e
+PKG_CAT:=bzcat
 
 include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/host-build.mk
 
diff --git a/tools/bison/patches/010-intl-stub-compat.patch b/tools/bison/patches/010-intl-stub-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7690e10ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/bison/patches/010-intl-stub-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+--- a/src/main.c
++++ b/src/main.c
+@@ -57,9 +57,9 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[])
+ {
+   program_name = argv[0];
+   setlocale (LC_ALL, "");
+-  (void) bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
+-  (void) bindtextdomain ("bison-runtime", LOCALEDIR);
+-  (void) textdomain (PACKAGE);
++  bindtextdomain (PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
++  bindtextdomain ("bison-runtime", LOCALEDIR);
++  textdomain (PACKAGE);
+ 
+   uniqstrs_new ();
+