[Bug libstdc++/57740] C++11 std::thread not usable with static linking

[pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57740

--- Comment #8 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to roland from comment #7)
> -static-libstdc++ is important
> to avoid DSO dependencies specific to the GCC version, which varies across
> installations in incompatible ways far more than libc/libpthread versions).

No it does not.  Or rather there have not been an ABI change in libstdc++ since
3.4.  If you compile with the oldest distro you support, it should work across
all distros just fine.  Just C++11 support was not part of most older distros
because they came out before 2011 :).