I'm attaching a patch that solves the issue; verification steps below. It disables -fexceptions when building multipath-udeb. (I had in mind something more elegant, like only adding -fno-exceptions from debian/rules into DEB_CFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND as done w/ -static-libgcc, but that way it doesn't override the post-added -fexceptions in Makefile.inc).. and found no other variable that would override it w/ less changes. So it's adding a patch to Makefile.inc and it does the job.) Some comments with more details/explanation of the issue were not mirrored yet; should be on their way. Build verification: ------------------ Checking the build log, the 2 tur.o objects are built correctly: 1) multipath-udeb: with -static-libgcc and without -fexceptions 2) multipath deb: without -static-libgcc and with -fexceptions (default) $ dpkg-buildpackage 2>&1 | tee ../dpkg-buildpackage.log $ grep -- '-o tur.o' ../dpkg-buildpackage.log cc -g -O3 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -static-libgcc -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wunused -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DLIB_STRING=\"lib\" -I.. -c -o tur.o tur.c cc -g -O3 -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wunused -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DLIB_STRING=\"lib\" -I.. -c -o tur.o tur.c Checking the build output, the ELF objects (don't) dyn-link to libgcc_s as appropriate: 1) multipath-udeb: ELF objects don't dyn-link with libgcc_s 2) multipath deb: ELF objects dyn-link with libgcc_s $ find debian/tmp-multipath-udeb/ | while read file; do file $file | grep -q ELF && objdump -x $file | grep -q 'NEEDED.*libgcc_s' && echo $file needs libgcc_s; done $ $ find debian/tmp/ | while read file; do file $file | grep -q ELF && objdump -x $file | grep -q 'NEEDED.*libgcc_s' && echo $file needs libgcc_s; done debian/tmp/lib/libmultipath.so.0 needs libgcc_s debian/tmp/lib/multipath/libchecktur.so needs libgcc_s debian/tmp/sbin/multipathd needs libgcc_s $ Installer verification: ----------------------- Configure multipath.conf for using tur with QEMU/KVM SCSI disks: ~ # cat </etc/multipath.conf < | A dynamic linking error occurred: (libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) ... <...> | A dynamic linking error occurred: (libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory) uuid hcil dev dev_t pri dm_st chk_st vend/prod/rev dev_st 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 -1 undef faulty QEMU,QEMU HARDDISK running 0:0:2:0 sdb 8:16 -1 undef faulty QEMU,QEMU HARDDISK running ... Install the new udeb: ~ # udpkg -i multipath-udeb_0.5.0-7ubuntu3fexceptions1_ppc64el.udeb Re-test (now OK): ~ # multipath -v3 ... ===== paths list ===== uuid hcil dev dev_t pri dm_st chk_st vend/prod/re 0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_helloworld 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 1 undef ready QEMU,QEMU HA 0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_helloworld 0:0:2:0 sdb 8:16 1 undef ready QEMU,QEMU HA ... create: mpatha (0QEMU_QEMU_HARDDISK_helloworld) undef QEMU,QEMU HARDDISK size=128G features='0' hwhandler='0' wp=undef |-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef | `- 0:0:1:0 sda 8:0 undef ready running `-+- policy='round-robin 0' prio=1 status=undef `- 0:0:2:0 sdb 8:16 undef ready running ...