diff --git a/libcpath.changes b/libcpath.changes
index 23b3ef0..dbf10e0 100644
--- a/libcpath.changes
+++ b/libcpath.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 21 09:16:41 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libcpath.spec b/libcpath.spec
index 8da06a4..eb6a132 100644
--- a/libcpath.spec
+++ b/libcpath.spec
@@ -63,7 +63,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libcpath.
 
 %build
 autoreconf -fi
-%configure --disable-static --enable-wide-character-type
+# see libcdata for version-sc
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
+%configure --disable-static --enable-wide-character-type LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
 %make_build
 
 %install