diff --git a/package/Config.in.host b/package/Config.in.host
index aa1f15e3ac..e7fdaf19fd 100644
--- a/package/Config.in.host
+++ b/package/Config.in.host
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ menu "Host utilities"
 	source "package/python-kflash/Config.in.host"
 	source "package/python-lxml/Config.in.host"
 	source "package/python-pyyaml/Config.in.host"
+	source "package/python-scons/Config.in.host"
 	source "package/python-six/Config.in.host"
 	source "package/python-xlrd/Config.in.host"
 	source "package/python3/Config.in.host"
diff --git a/package/python-scons/0001-remove-docs.patch b/package/python-scons/0001-remove-docs.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb371ddd0e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-scons/0001-remove-docs.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+diff -urN SCons-4.5.2/MANIFEST.in SCons-4.5.2.new/MANIFEST.in
+--- SCons-4.5.2/MANIFEST.in	2023-01-24 05:14:53.000000000 +0100
++++ SCons-4.5.2.new/MANIFEST.in	2023-10-31 21:31:57.320046155 +0100
+@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
+-recursive-include SCons/Tool/docbook *
+ 
+ # For license file
+ include LICENSE
+ 
+ include scons.1 sconsign.1 scons-time.1
+-recursive-include build/doc/man *.1
+ 
+ 
+ 
+diff -urN SCons-4.5.2/setup.cfg SCons-4.5.2.new/setup.cfg
+--- SCons-4.5.2/setup.cfg	2023-03-21 17:11:43.492238000 +0100
++++ SCons-4.5.2.new/setup.cfg	2023-10-31 21:32:20.359093931 +0100
+@@ -55,14 +55,6 @@
+ 	sconsign = SCons.Utilities.sconsign:main
+ 	scons-configure-cache = SCons.Utilities.ConfigureCache:main
+ 
+-[options.package_data]
+-* = *.txt, *.rst, *.1
+-SCons.Tool.docbook = *.*
+-
+-[options.data_files]
+-. = scons.1
+-	scons-time.1
+-	sconsign.1
+ 
+ [sdist]
+ dist_dir = build/dist
+
diff --git a/package/python-scons/Config.in.host b/package/python-scons/Config.in.host
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..45849294b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-scons/Config.in.host
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+config BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_PYTHON_SCONS
+	bool "host python-scons"
+	help
+	  SCons 4.5.2
diff --git a/package/python-scons/python-scons.hash b/package/python-scons/python-scons.hash
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a643bc65ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-scons/python-scons.hash
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Locally computed:
+sha256  ce26aac95d350a79a4192196b0beac3cb24f4ccabce0123eb28d3370f576f072  SCons-4.5.2.tar.gz
+sha256  f4d2b41033399aa4d3459a5e9708be41022381a47ef2dd64adfab714e9d6d39f  LICENSE
diff --git a/package/python-scons/python-scons.mk b/package/python-scons/python-scons.mk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..786e140f6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/python-scons/python-scons.mk
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+################################################################################
+#
+# scons
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PYTHON_SCONS_VERSION = 4.5.2
+PYTHON_SCONS_SOURCE = SCons-$(PYTHON_SCONS_VERSION).tar.gz
+PYTHON_SCONS_SITE = https://sourceforge.net/projects/scons/files/scons/$(PYTHON_SCONS_VERSION)
+PYTHON_SCONS_LICENSE = MIT
+PYTHON_SCONS_LICENSE_FILES = LICENSE
+PYTHON_SCONS_SETUP_TYPE = setuptools
+HOST_PYTHON_SCONS_NEEDS_HOST_PYTHON = python3
+
+$(eval $(host-python-package))