diff --git a/pigz.changes b/pigz.changes
index 1fe70fd..808911f 100644
--- a/pigz.changes
+++ b/pigz.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Aug 12 14:22:56 UTC 2020 - Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>
+
+- Build with -fexceptions to get compiler/os specific (aka. sane) 
+  implementations of pthread_cleanup* routines.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul 12 07:29:47 UTC 2018 - mpluskal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/pigz.spec b/pigz.spec
index 8a11ec2..3aab635 100644
--- a/pigz.spec
+++ b/pigz.spec
@@ -33,10 +33,10 @@ A parallel implementation of gzip for modern multi-processor, multi-core machine
 %setup -q
 
 %build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+make %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fexceptions"
 
 %check
-make tests %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags}"
+make tests %{?_smp_mflags} CFLAGS="%{optflags} -fexceptions"
 
 %install
 install -Dpm 0755 pigz \