Would typically be pthreads.
Without this, '-Wl,--no-undefined' would output these errors:

/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::OS_CleanupThreadData()':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:83: undefined reference to `__pthread_register_cancel'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:93: undefined reference to `__pthread_unregister_cancel'
/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::OS_AllocTLSIndex()':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:122: undefined reference to `pthread_key_create'
/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::OS_SetTLSValue(void*, void*)':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:137: undefined reference to `pthread_setspecific'
/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::OS_FreeTLSIndex(void*)':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:162: undefined reference to `pthread_key_delete'
/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::InitGlobalLock()':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:175: undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_init'
/usr/bin/ld: /home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:176: undefined reference to `pthread_mutexattr_settype'
/usr/bin/ld: OSDependent/Unix/libOSDependent.a(ossource.cpp.o): in function `glslang::OS_GetTLSValue(void*)':
/home/akien/Mageia/Sandbox/_rpm/BUILD/glslang-7.10.2984/glslang/OSDependent/Unix/ossource.cpp:149: undefined reference to `pthread_getspecific'