diff --git a/packages/compress/unrar/build b/packages/compress/unrar/build
index e17b6da8d2..7a73966f4e 100755
--- a/packages/compress/unrar/build
+++ b/packages/compress/unrar/build
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-cd $BUILD/$1
+# fails to build with GOLD linker
+  strip_gold
 
+cd $BUILD/$1
 make CC=$TARGET_CC \
      RANLIB=$TARGET_RANLIB \
      AR=$TARGET_AR \
diff --git a/packages/compress/unrar/meta b/packages/compress/unrar/meta
index dd0eeca421..0103b2905e 100644
--- a/packages/compress/unrar/meta
+++ b/packages/compress/unrar/meta
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 PKG_NAME="unrar"
-PKG_VERSION="3.9.10"
+PKG_VERSION="4.0.3"
 PKG_REV="1"
 PKG_ARCH="any"
 PKG_LICENSE="free"
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ PKG_SHORTDESC="unrar: Extract, test and view RAR archives"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Unrar is a package to handle files compressed in the RAR format. Due to strange licensing issues this package can only view, test and extract files in a given archive, but not pack files. But since we have far more advanced open-source compression utils it should be enough to extract the content when you get a RAR archive."
 PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
 
-PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"