-pthread gets ignored by libtool using -nostdlib for C++ linking as per: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches/11704 Causing issues like bug 496810
I still can't figure out why I can't reproduce the ilmbase -> openexr bug 496810 (and the bugs where it leads to). Heck, this might have been even fixed already in 2.4.2 I use differently, and the users hitting problem in bug 496810 might have something older. I'm just saying this bug could be even bogus :-/ Still figuring it out
This is still the best guess for why people are hitting issues like bug 499300 even though -pthread is clearly visible in the 'libtool: link', more than once
Likely was bug 499462, Comment #6 As in, binutils revbump 2.24 to -r2 fixed things
This ended up being handled in bug 650876.