Thank God for google-able mailing list archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-libtool@gnu.org/msg00899.html
We ran into this exact bug in Libtool that was causing the C++
bindings library to be compiled incorrectly (therefore causing static
initializers to not fire properly when in a shared library, which is
the default installation configuration). Putting in some libtool
patches to fix the problem -- will be mailing the Libtool crowd
shortly to ask for a better fix...
This commit was SVN r14454.
The following Trac tickets were found above:
Ticket 982 --> https://svn.open-mpi.org/trac/ompi/ticket/982
