diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/2.x.nix
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/default.nix
rename to pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/2.x.nix
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..63ceb7d6b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, m4, perl }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "bison-3.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://gnu/bison/${name}.tar.xz";
+    sha256 = "1j14fqgi9wzqgsy4fhkcdrv4hv6rrvhvn84axs520w9b022mbb79";
+  };
+
+  nativeBuildInputs = [ m4 ] ++ stdenv.lib.optional doCheck perl;
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [ m4 ];
+
+  doCheck = true;
+
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.gnu.org/software/bison/";
+    description = "GNU Bison, a Yacc-compatible parser generator";
+    license = "GPLv3+";
+
+    longDescription = ''
+      Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an
+      annotated context-free grammar into an LALR(1) or GLR parser for
+      that grammar.  Once you are proficient with Bison, you can 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 or C++ programming in order
+      to use Bison.
+    '';
+
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.ludo stdenv.lib.maintainers.simons ];
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
+  };
+
+  passthru = { glrSupport = true; };
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 4758e7e6d2d..7fc37fc8790 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3319,7 +3319,9 @@ let
     cross = assert crossSystem != null; crossSystem;
   }));
 
-  bison = callPackage ../development/tools/parsing/bison { };
+  bison2 = callPackage ../development/tools/parsing/bison/2.x.nix { };
+  bison3 = callPackage ../development/tools/parsing/bison/3.x.nix { };
+  bison = bison2;
 
   buildbot = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/buildbot {
     inherit (pythonPackages) twisted jinja2 sqlalchemy sqlalchemy_migrate;