diff -Naur libsmbios-2.2.28/src/libsmbios_c/smi/smi_linux.c libsmbios-2.2.28.new/src/libsmbios_c/smi/smi_linux.c
--- libsmbios-2.2.28/src/libsmbios_c/smi/smi_linux.c	2010-06-11 11:31:01.000000000 -0400
+++ libsmbios-2.2.28.new/src/libsmbios_c/smi/smi_linux.c	2012-06-21 14:57:15.000000000 -0400
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #define bufsize 256
 
 // not in header file. for private use by unit tests.
+LIBSMBIOS_C_DLL_SPEC void set_basedir(const char *); // needed to link tests
 void set_basedir(const char *newdir)
 {
     sysfs_basedir = newdir;