The higher boost version avaiable on this OS is 1.42. I untar boost_1_49_0/ in another folder. When I do: /usr/bin/cmake -H/home/lll/tmp/cpp-netlib -B/home/lll/tmp/cpp-netlib -DBOOST_ROOT=/home/lll/tmp/cpp-netlib/boost_1_49_0/ --check-build-system CMakeFiles/Makefile....