diff --git a/packages/rust/build.sh b/packages/rust/build.sh
index a7068079d..054e4fe81 100644
--- a/packages/rust/build.sh
+++ b/packages/rust/build.sh
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ termux_step_configure() {
 	export CC_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu=gcc
 	export CFLAGS_x86_64_unknown_linux_gnu="-O2"
 	export LLVM_VERSION=$(grep ^TERMUX_PKG_VERSION= $TERMUX_PKG_BUILDER_DIR/../libllvm/build.sh | cut -f2 -d=)
-	unset CC CXX CPP LD CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS PKG_CONFIG AR RANLIB
+	unset CC CXX CPP LD CFLAGS CXXFLAGS CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS PKG_CONFIG RANLIB
 	# we can't use -L$PREFIX/lib since it breaks things but we need to link against libLLVM-9.so
 	ln -sf $PREFIX/lib/libLLVM-$LLVM_VERSION.so $TERMUX_STANDALONE_TOOLCHAIN/sysroot/usr/lib/$TERMUX_HOST_PLATFORM/$TERMUX_PKG_API_LEVEL/