Comment 6 for bug 922804

> Since the original bug report mentioned gentoo, I'd be curious to know how the original package was built.

I can help ;-)

# ldd /usr/bin/pbzip2
        linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff89b16000)
        libbz2.so.1 => /lib64/libbz2.so.1 (0x00007f98afa90000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f98af873000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f98af573000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f98af35d000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007f98aefce000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f98afca1000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007f98aed4b000)

# ll /lib64/libpthread.so.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jan 31 20:33 /lib64/libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.14.1.so

One can certainly not speak of the absence of a pthreads library. And as for the version ...
it comes from glibc 2.14.1, should not be that obsolete.

Richard