diff --git a/changes/bug29145 b/changes/bug29145
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..40d3da4b91
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug29145
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (compilation, testing):
+    - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD.  Fixes
+      bug 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.  Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
diff --git a/src/test/test-memwipe.c b/src/test/test-memwipe.c
index 89d946d506..4beb613693 100644
--- a/src/test/test-memwipe.c
+++ b/src/test/test-memwipe.c
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ const char *s = NULL;
 #ifdef OpenBSD
 /* Disable some of OpenBSD's malloc protections for this test. This helps
  * us do bad things, such as access freed buffers, without crashing. */
-const char *malloc_options="sufjj";
+extern const char *malloc_options;
+const char *malloc_options = "sufjj";
 #endif
 
 static unsigned