diff --git a/src/systemd/_sd-common.h b/src/systemd/_sd-common.h
index d4381d90f4a..1e1ce35418a 100644
--- a/src/systemd/_sd-common.h
+++ b/src/systemd/_sd-common.h
@@ -45,6 +45,10 @@ typedef void (*_sd_destroy_t)(void *userdata);
 #  define _sd_pure_ __attribute__((__pure__))
 #endif
 
+#ifndef _sd_const_
+#  define _sd_const_ __attribute__((__const__))
+#endif
+
 /* Note that strictly speaking __deprecated__ has been available before GCC 6. However, starting with GCC 6
  * it also works on enum values, which we are interested in. Since this is a developer-facing feature anyway
  * (as opposed to build engineer-facing), let's hence conditionalize this to gcc 6, given that the developers