diff --git a/js/src/Makefile.in b/js/src/Makefile.in
index 38ef8a2a2606..fe7a2619c767 100644
--- a/js/src/Makefile.in
+++ b/js/src/Makefile.in
@@ -530,6 +530,18 @@ config/nsinstall$(HOST_BIN_SUFFIX): $(srcdir)/config/nsinstall.c $(srcdir)/confi
 	$(MAKE) -C config/ nsinstall$(HOST_BIN_SUFFIX)
 endif
 
+# Ensure symbol versions of shared library on Linux do not conflict
+# with those in libxul.
+ifeq (Linux,$(OS_TARGET))
+EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += -Wl,-version-script,symverscript
+
+symverscript: symverscript.in
+	$(PYTHON) $(topsrcdir)/config/Preprocessor.py \
+		-DVERSION="$(subst -,_,$(LIBRARY_NAME))" $< > $@
+
+EXTRA_DEPS += symverscript
+endif
+
 include $(topsrcdir)/config/rules.mk
 
 ifdef JS_HAS_CTYPES
diff --git a/js/src/symverscript.in b/js/src/symverscript.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef70826ad4e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/js/src/symverscript.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#filter substitution
+@VERSION@ {
+    global: *;
+};
diff --git a/toolkit/library/Makefile.in b/toolkit/library/Makefile.in
index e961884e5093..52db9a6b0ead 100644
--- a/toolkit/library/Makefile.in
+++ b/toolkit/library/Makefile.in
@@ -129,6 +129,13 @@ endif
 ifeq (Linux,$(OS_ARCH))
 ifneq (Android,$(OS_TARGET))
 OS_LIBS += -lrt
+EXTRA_DSO_LDOPTS += -Wl,-version-script,symverscript
+
+symverscript: symverscript.in
+	$(PYTHON) $(topsrcdir)/config/Preprocessor.py \
+		-DVERSION="$(LIBRARY_NAME)$(MOZILLA_VERSION)" $< > $@
+
+EXTRA_DEPS += symverscript
 endif
 endif
 
diff --git a/toolkit/library/symverscript.in b/toolkit/library/symverscript.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ef70826ad4e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolkit/library/symverscript.in
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#filter substitution
+@VERSION@ {
+    global: *;
+};