diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 7f5f56c1..0ebc2297 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -54,8 +54,10 @@ install:
     if [[ "$LUA" == "5.3" ]]; then
       wget http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.3.3.tar.gz -O lua.tar.gz
       tar -xvzf lua.tar.gz
+      (echo '#!/bin/sh' ; echo 'set -x' ; echo 'gcc -shared -Wl,--no-undefined -o "$@" -ldl -lm') > /tmp/myar
+      chmod a+x /tmp/myar
       (cd lua-5.3.3/src \
-        && make SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX -ULUA_COMPAT_5_2 -DLUA_USE_APICHECK" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline" LUA_A=liblua.so MYCFLAGS="-fPIC" RANLIB=: AR="gcc -shared -ldl -o" liblua.so \
+        && make SYSCFLAGS="-DLUA_USE_LINUX -ULUA_COMPAT_5_2 -DLUA_USE_APICHECK" SYSLIBS="-Wl,-E -ldl -lreadline" LUA_A=liblua.so MYCFLAGS="-fPIC" RANLIB=: AR="/tmp/myar" liblua.so \
         && cd .. \
         && sudo make INSTALL_TOP=/usr/ INSTALL_INC=${LUAINCLUDE} TO_LIB=liblua.so linux install)
     elif [[ "$LUANAME" == "luajit-2.0" ]]; then