Jan Holzhüter

yeah I know how to do that. Just thought I would mention it. So maybe it's worth to add it to the articel

where does the version cause a problem? Atm it's only checked if boost headers are there not version. This is the case in main xbmc too: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/master/configure.in#L639 So if this...

ok that would need something like this: http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf-archive/ax_boost_base.html#ax_boost_base But I have not messed with this kind of stuff yet :) I would report that upstream though