The depends comment is actually incorrect, and this can be dropped once we move to 1.71.0 or later.
Superseded by 4bdad99f5000539dcf03ddc92c142fa6deb44c01
Boost assumes variadic templates are always available in GCC 4.4+, but they aren't since we don't build with -std=c++11. This applies the patch that fixed the issue in boost 1.57: eec8085549 See also: https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/10500
eec8085549
See the README's in depends for documentation