https://bugs.gentoo.org/718028
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ AM_MISSING_PROG(MAKEINFO, makeinfo, $missing_dir)
 AC_PROG_CC
 AC_PROG_CPP
 AC_PROG_INSTALL
+AM_PROG_AR
 AC_PROG_RANLIB
 # We need to check for cplusplus here because we may not do the test
 # for Qt and autoconf does does not allow that.
