diff --git a/gobject/glib-mkenums.in b/gobject/glib-mkenums.in
index 219a16615..9316e57f5 100755
--- a/gobject/glib-mkenums.in
+++ b/gobject/glib-mkenums.in
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ my $option_lowercase_name;	# DEPRECATED.  A lower case name to use as part
 				# uses abnormal capitalization and we can not
 				# guess where to put the underscores.
 my $seenbitshift;		# Have we seen bitshift operators?
+my $seenprivate;                # Have we seen a private option?
 my $enum_prefix;		# Prefix for this enumeration
 my $enumname;			# Name for this enumeration
 my $enumshort;			# $enumname without prefix
@@ -115,6 +116,8 @@ sub parse_entries {
 		$seenbitshift = 1;
 	    }
 
+            next if $seenprivate;
+
 	    if (defined $options) {
 		my %options = parse_trigraph($options);
 		if (!defined $options{skip}) {
@@ -125,6 +128,21 @@ sub parse_entries {
 	    }
 	} elsif (m@^\s*\#@) {
 	    # ignore preprocessor directives
+        } elsif (m@^\s*
+                   /\*< (([^*]|\*(?!/))*) >\s*\*/
+                   \s*$
+                  @x) {
+            my ($options) = ($1);
+
+            if (defined $options) {
+                my %options = parse_trigraph($options);
+                if (defined $options{private}) {
+                    $seenprivate = 1;
+                }
+                elsif (defined $options{public}) {
+                    $seenprivate = 0;
+                }
+            }
 	} else {
 	    print STDERR "$0: $file_name:$.: Failed to parse `$_'\n";
 	}
@@ -353,6 +371,7 @@ while (<>) {
 	}
 
 	$seenbitshift = 0;
+        $seenprivate = 0;
 	@entries = ();
 
 	# Now parse the entries