1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/miscutils/make.c b/miscutils/make.c
index 7e156e302..a2cd03707 100644
--- a/miscutils/make.c
+++ b/miscutils/make.c
@@ -336,6 +336,21 @@ auto_concat(const char *s1, const char *s2)
         return auto_string(xasprintf("%s%s", s1, s2));
 }
 
+#if !ENABLE_PLATFORM_MINGW32
+/*
+ * Append a word to a space-separated string of words.  The first
+ * call should use a NULL pointer for str, subsequent calls should
+ * pass an allocated string which will be freed.
+ */
+static char *
+xappendword(const char *str, const char *word)
+{
+        char *newstr = str ? xasprintf("%s %s", str, word) : xstrdup(word);
+        free((void *)str);
+        return newstr;
+}
+#endif
+
 static unsigned int
 getbucket(const char *name)
 {