diff --git a/libhmac.changes b/libhmac.changes
index 6a582df..c7b6882 100644
--- a/libhmac.changes
+++ b/libhmac.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Aug  8 11:37:44 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add forced symvers
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Apr 25 08:14:04 UTC 2022 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/libhmac.spec b/libhmac.spec
index 786c850..55818b8 100644
--- a/libhmac.spec
+++ b/libhmac.spec
@@ -74,7 +74,10 @@ Use hmacsum to calculate a Hash-based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) of the
 
 %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