diff --git a/libfsntfs.changes b/libfsntfs.changes
index e3b63a8..15796bd 100644
--- a/libfsntfs.changes
+++ b/libfsntfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Feb 20 14:20:27 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libfsntfs.spec b/libfsntfs.spec
index aedd8c4..6b1417c 100644
--- a/libfsntfs.spec
+++ b/libfsntfs.spec
@@ -99,8 +99,11 @@ autoreconf -fi
 # OOT builds are presently broken, so we have to install
 # within each python iteration now, not in %%install.
 %{python_expand #
+# see libcdata for version-sc
+echo "V_%version { global: *; };" >v.sym
 %configure --disable-static --enable-wide-character-type \
-	--enable-python PYTHON_VERSION="%{$python_bin_suffix}"
+	--enable-python PYTHON_VERSION="%{$python_bin_suffix}" \
+	LDFLAGS="-Wl,--version-script=$PWD/v.sym"
 %make_build
 %make_install DESTDIR="%_builddir/rt"
 %make_build clean