diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index b0cd34da4..b911310a6 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+23 April 2018: Wouter
+	- makedist uses bz2 for expat code, instead of tar.gz.
+
 20 April 2018: Wouter
 	- man page documentation for dns-over-tls forward-addr '#' notation.
 	- removed free from failed parse case.
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index d18f2bb60..ffc00c13b 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ if [ "$DOWIN" = "yes" ]; then
 	if test -n "$WINEXPAT"; then
 		info "Cross compile $WINEXPAT"
 		info "wxp: tar unpack"
-		(cd ..; gzip -cd $WINEXPAT) | tar xf - || error_cleanup "tar unpack of $WINEXPAT failed"
+		(cd ..; bzip2 -cd $WINEXPAT) | tar xf - || error_cleanup "tar unpack of $WINEXPAT failed"
 		wxpinstall="`pwd`/wxpinstall"
 		cd expat-* || error_cleanup "no expat-X dir in tarball"
 		info "wxp: configure"