diff --git a/lib/pengine/Makefile.am b/lib/pengine/Makefile.am
index 1d62687948..f54e6b94fd 100644
--- a/lib/pengine/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/pengine/Makefile.am
@@ -1,33 +1,33 @@
 #
 # Copyright 2004-2018 Andrew Beekhof <andrew@beekhof.net>
 #
 # This source code is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
 # or later (GPLv2+) WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
 #
 include $(top_srcdir)/Makefile.common
 
 ## libraries
 lib_LTLIBRARIES		= libpe_rules.la libpe_status.la
 
 ## SOURCES
-noinst_HEADERS		= unpack.h variant.h
+noinst_HEADERS		= unpack.h variant.h pe_status_private.h
 
 libpe_rules_la_LDFLAGS	= -version-info 26:0:0
 
 libpe_rules_la_CFLAGS	= $(CFLAGS_HARDENED_LIB)
 libpe_rules_la_LDFLAGS	+= $(LDFLAGS_HARDENED_LIB)
 
 libpe_rules_la_LIBADD	= $(top_builddir)/lib/common/libcrmcommon.la
 libpe_rules_la_SOURCES	= rules.c rules_alerts.c common.c
 
 libpe_status_la_LDFLAGS	= -version-info 27:0:0
 
 libpe_status_la_CFLAGS	= $(CFLAGS_HARDENED_LIB)
 libpe_status_la_LDFLAGS	+= $(LDFLAGS_HARDENED_LIB)
 
 libpe_status_la_LIBADD	= @CURSESLIBS@ $(top_builddir)/lib/common/libcrmcommon.la
 libpe_status_la_SOURCES	= status.c unpack.c utils.c complex.c native.c container.c \
 			group.c clone.c rules.c common.c failcounts.c remote.c
 
 clean-generic:
 	rm -f *.log *.debug *~
diff --git a/lib/pengine/pe_status_private.h b/lib/pengine/pe_status_private.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..712639caa3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/pengine/pe_status_private.h
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2018 Andrew Beekhof <andrew@beekhof.net>
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ * version 2.1 or later (LGPLv2.1+) WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
+ */
+
+#ifndef PE_STATUS_PRIVATE__H
+#  define PE_STATUS_PRIVATE__H
+
+/* This header is for the sole use of libpe_status, so that functions can be
+ * declared with G_GNUC_INTERNAL for efficiency.
+ */
+
+#endif  // PE_STATUS_PRIVATE__H