diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 733450f30..802cd1e15 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ Verilator 4.217 devel
 * Support up to 64 bit enums for .next/.prev/.name (#3244). [Alexander Grobman]
 * Reduce .rodata footprint of trace initialization (#3250). [Geza Lore, Shunyao CAD]
 * Use C++11 standard types for MacOS portability (#3254) (#3257). [Adrien Le Masle]
+* Fix make support for BSD ar (#2999) (#3256). [Julie Schwartz]
 * Fix bad ending address on $readmem (#3205). [Julie Schwartz]
 * Fix MSWIN compile error (#2681). [Unai Martinez-Corral]
 * Fix break under foreach loop (#3230).
diff --git a/include/verilated.mk.in b/include/verilated.mk.in
index aa9274789..99fd533c2 100644
--- a/include/verilated.mk.in
+++ b/include/verilated.mk.in
@@ -223,7 +223,9 @@ endif
 	$(info Archive $(AR) -rcs $@ $^)
 	$(foreach L, $(filter-out %.a,$^), $(shell echo $L >>$@.verilator_deplist.tmp))
 	@if test $(words $(filter %.a,$^)) -eq 0; then \
-		$(AR) -rcs $@ @$@.verilator_deplist.tmp; \
+		$(RM) -f $@; \
+		cat $@.verilator_deplist.tmp | xargs $(AR) -rc $@; \
+		$(AR) -s $@; \
 	else \
 		$(RM) -rf $@.tmpdir; \
 		for archive in $(filter %.a,$^); do \
@@ -232,7 +234,9 @@ endif
 			$(AR) -x ../../$${archive}; \
 			cd ../..; \
 		done; \
-		$(AR) -rcs $@ @$@.verilator_deplist.tmp $@.tmpdir/*/*.o; \
+		$(RM) -f $@; \
+		cat $@.verilator_deplist.tmp | xargs $(AR) -rc $@; \
+		$(AR) -rcs $@ $@.tmpdir/*/*.o; \
 	fi \
 	; $(RM) -rf $@.verilator_deplist.tmp $@.tmpdir