diff --git a/recipes/parted/files/extensions-m4.patch b/recipes/parted/files/extensions-m4.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ec53f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/recipes/parted/files/extensions-m4.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+diff -Nru parted-1.8.8/m4/extensions.m4 parted-1.8.8.patched/m4/extensions.m4
+--- parted-1.8.8/m4/extensions.m4	2006-10-12 10:01:18.000000000 +0200
++++ parted-1.8.8.patched/m4/extensions.m4	2010-05-19 18:14:35.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-# serial 4  -*- Autoconf -*-
++# serial 5  -*- Autoconf -*-
+ # Enable extensions on systems that normally disable them.
+ 
+ # Copyright (C) 2003, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
+ # ------------------------
+ # Enable extensions on systems that normally disable them,
+ # typically due to standards-conformance issues.
++m4_ifdef([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS], [], [
+ AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS],
+ [
+   AC_BEFORE([$0], [AC_COMPILE_IFELSE])
+@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@
+     AC_DEFINE([__EXTENSIONS__])
+   AC_DEFINE([_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS])
+   AC_DEFINE([_TANDEM_SOURCE])
+-])
++])])
+ 
+ # gl_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS
+ # ------------------------
diff --git a/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb b/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb
index 2890e23..82369f1 100644
--- a/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb
+++ b/recipes/parted/parted_1.8.8.bb
@@ -3,11 +3,12 @@ HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3"
 SECTION = "console/tools"
 DEPENDS = "readline util-linux-ng"
-PR = "r3"
+PR = "r4"
 
 SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/parted/parted-${PV}.tar.gz \
 	   file://use_llseek_syscall.patch;patch=1 \
 	   file://parted-1.8.x.patch;patch=1 \
+	   file://extensions-m4.patch;patch=1 \
 "
            
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-Werror ac_cv_func_calloc_0_nonnull=yes"