diff --git a/libnl3.changes b/libnl3.changes
index 1564fff..be2d180 100644
--- a/libnl3.changes
+++ b/libnl3.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Oct  8 14:13:30 UTC 2014 - olaf@aepfle.de
+
+- BuildRequire at least bison 2.4, version in SLE11 is too old
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Jul 16 21:24:48 UTC 2014 - jengelh@inai.de
 
diff --git a/libnl3.spec b/libnl3.spec
index 7adcced..8079d4e 100644
--- a/libnl3.spec
+++ b/libnl3.spec
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Url:            http://www.carisma.slowglass.com/~tgr/libnl/
 Source:         http://www.carisma.slowglass.com/~tgr/libnl/files/libnl-%version.tar.gz
 Source2:        baselibs.conf
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
-BuildRequires:  bison
+BuildRequires:  bison >= 2.4
 BuildRequires:  flex >= 2.5.19
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig >= 0.21
 # Only used if python/ subdir would be built, which is not and