diff --git a/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe b/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
index d7cf257d7..0fbd0b14d 100644
--- a/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
+++ b/sys-devel/binutils/binutils-2.24_2014_03_19.recipe
@@ -1,15 +1,20 @@
 SUMMARY="Assembler, linker and binary tools for target ${targetMachineTriple}"
 HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils"
 
-SRC_URI="
-	git+git://github.com/haiku/buildtools.git#c20a732df8f8b6d0f32c872817f3a0498a5c4761"
-REVISION="1"
+srcGitRev="c20a732df8f8b6d0f32c872817f3a0498a5c4761"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/haiku/buildtools/archive/$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
+REVISION="2"
 LICENSE="
 	GNU GPL v2
 	GNU LGPL v2
 	"
 COPYRIGHT="1988-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
 
+CHECKSUM_SIZE="155931258"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="799058d91d7e8772dc78c64d4f6722f3"
+CHECKSUM_RMD160="b81cf4d5a551408587d0e9209f399226c2661ccf"
+CHECKSUM_SHA512="3b8b41c08c4c06137835fc88ff996597d75e4ace7e24f5310d0daaf0ccb73c92a69c11f15801bf561c310a44f0721930ba3b598c37a7f4fa2c411931a8fb8205"
+
 ARCHITECTURES="x86 x86_64"
 if [ $effectiveTargetArchitecture != x86_gcc2 ]; then
 	# x86_gcc2 is fine as primary target architecture as long as we're building
@@ -63,7 +68,7 @@ BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
 	cmd:xargs
 	"
 
-SOURCE_DIR="binutils-$portVersion/binutils"
+SOURCE_DIR="buildtools-$srcGitRev/binutils"
 BUILD_PACKAGE_ACTIVATION_PHASE=INSTALL
 
 sourceDir=$(pwd)