diff --git a/dev-lang/maude/files/maude-2.7-AR.patch b/dev-lang/maude/files/maude-2.7-AR.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0d172c8a8c43d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-lang/maude/files/maude-2.7-AR.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ fi
+ #
+ AC_PROG_CC
+ AC_PROG_CXX
++AM_PROG_AR
+ if (test "$GXX" = yes) then
+   AC_MSG_CHECKING([g++ compiler version])
+   GXX_VERSION=`$CXX -dumpversion`
diff --git a/dev-lang/maude/maude-2.7.ebuild b/dev-lang/maude/maude-2.7.ebuild
index c871a47748f15..01957fb2a5e5f 100644
--- a/dev-lang/maude/maude-2.7.ebuild
+++ b/dev-lang/maude/maude-2.7.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=6
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.5.0-prll.patch"
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.6-search-datadir.patch"
 	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.7-bison-parse-param.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/${PN}-2.7-AR.patch"
 )
 
 src_prepare() {