diff --git a/libcsplit.changes b/libcsplit.changes
index 829a110..999f03e 100644
--- a/libcsplit.changes
+++ b/libcsplit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Jan  9 10:26:55 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libcsplit.spec b/libcsplit.spec
index 073b610..13fd8e3 100644
--- a/libcsplit.spec
+++ b/libcsplit.spec
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ applications that want to make use of libcsplit.
 
 %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