diff --git a/app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r2.ebuild b/app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r3.ebuild
similarity index 95%
rename from app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r2.ebuild
rename to app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r3.ebuild
index 29ada517e90f7..e984d02159476 100644
--- a/app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r2.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/convertlit/convertlit-1.8-r3.ebuild
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ S="${WORKDIR}"
 PATCHES=(
 	"${FILESDIR}/${P}-respectflags-r1.patch"
 	"${FILESDIR}/fix-Wformat-security-warnings.patch"
+	"${FILESDIR}/support-ar-variable.patch"
 )
 
 src_compile() {
diff --git a/app-text/convertlit/files/support-ar-variable.patch b/app-text/convertlit/files/support-ar-variable.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..4bd3e822f31d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app-text/convertlit/files/support-ar-variable.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+diff --git a/lib/Makefile b/lib/Makefile
+index 9104f27..0c8b197 100644
+--- a/lib/Makefile
++++ b/lib/Makefile
+@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ clean:
+ 
+ openclit.a: litatom.o litdrm.o litlib.o litembiggen.o littags.o litmetatags.o litmanifest.o litdirectory.o litsections.o litheaders.o litutil.o sha/mssha1.o des/des.o newlzx/lzxglue.o newlzx/lzxd.o
+ 	-rm -f openclit.a
+-	ar rv openclit.a $^
++	$(AR) rv openclit.a $^
+