diff --git a/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc b/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
index b473fc7..dd9c2b8 100644
--- a/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
+++ b/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
@@ -22,4 +22,15 @@ EXTRA_OECMAKE = "\
 
 CFLAGS_append .= " -fPIC"
 
+# Prior to poky commit 60d504b431fa7cdc6ded141def7ae18edb1834e5,
+# the cmake class did not define CMAKE_AR in the generated toolchain
+# file.  This is needed to support building a static library.
+# See https://github.com/jmesmon/meta-rust/issues/1
+OECMAKE_AR ?= "${AR}"
+cmake_do_generate_toolchain_file_append() {
+    cat >> ${WORKDIR}/toolchain.cmake <<EOF
+set( CMAKE_AR ${OECMAKE_AR} CACHE FILEPATH "Archiver" )
+EOF
+}
+
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"