diff --git a/libfvalue.changes b/libfvalue.changes
index a28e620..258adf1 100644
--- a/libfvalue.changes
+++ b/libfvalue.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jan 20 10:03:53 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfvalue.spec b/libfvalue.spec
index 85276c7..1a6dc50 100644
--- a/libfvalue.spec
+++ b/libfvalue.spec
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libfvalue.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
-%configure --disable-static
+# see libcdata for version-sc
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
+%configure --disable-static LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
 %make_build
 
 %install