diff --git a/tools/elfdeps.c b/tools/elfdeps.c
index 52fda172fe..eea289ac2e 100644
--- a/tools/elfdeps.c
+++ b/tools/elfdeps.c
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <fcntl.h>
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ static char *getLibtoolVer(const char *filename)
     const char *so;
     char dest[PATH_MAX];
     int destsize = 0;
-    int found_digit, found_dot = 0;
+    int found_digit = 0, found_dot = 0;
 
     destsize = readlink(filename, dest, PATH_MAX);
     if (destsize > 0) {
@@ -101,6 +102,7 @@ static char *getLibtoolVerFromShLink(const char *filename)
 	void *dl_handle;
 	struct link_map *linkmap;
 	char *version = NULL;
+	ssize_t len;
 
 	close(pipefd[0]);
 	dl_handle = dlmopen(LM_ID_NEWLM, filename, RTLD_LAZY);
@@ -108,7 +110,7 @@ static char *getLibtoolVerFromShLink(const char *filename)
 	if (dlinfo(dl_handle, RTLD_DI_LINKMAP, &linkmap) != -1) {
 	    version = getLibtoolVer(linkmap->l_name);
 	}
-	write(pipefd[1], version, strlen(version));
+	len = write(pipefd[1], version, strlen(version));
 	close(pipefd[1]);
 	free(version);
 	dlclose(dl_handle);
@@ -190,6 +192,14 @@ static const char *mkmarker(GElf_Ehdr *ehdr)
     return marker;
 }
 
+static int findSonameInDeps(ARGV_t deps, const char *soname)
+{
+    for (ARGV_t dep = deps; *dep; dep++) {
+	if (strncmp(*dep, soname, strlen(soname)) == 0) return 1;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
 static void addDep(ARGV_t *deps,
 		   const char *soname, const char *ver, const char *marker,
 		   const char *compare_op, const char *fallback_ver)
@@ -326,7 +336,10 @@ static void processDynamic(Elf_Scn *scn, GElf_Shdr *shdr, elfInfo *ei)
 		    s = elf_strptr(ei->elf, shdr->sh_link, dyn->d_un.d_val);
 		    if (s) {
 			char *libtool_ver = NULL;
-			if (libtool_version_fallback) {
+			// If soname matches an item already in the deps, then
+			// it had versioned symbols and doesn't require fallback.
+			if (libtool_version_fallback &&
+			    !findSonameInDeps(ei->requires, s)) {
 			    libtool_ver = getLibtoolVerFromShLink(s);
 			}
 			addDep(&ei->requires, s, NULL, ei->marker, ">=", libtool_ver);