Comment 1 for bug 1338043

I keep an eye on bugs filed here, so there's no need to push this to Debian (I'm the Debian packager for this).

Your question covers similar issues to those raised in http://bugs.debian.org/750741 so I'm linking the two.

With regards to a proper solution, I'd be interested in anything you can come up with. I'm working (slowly) on a way of providing both win32 and pthreads-based libraries simultaneously, using linker script switches to pick the right one. Switching between SJLJ and SEH will happen automatically at some point in the future, or rather SEH will become the default, since the patent has now expired.