Hello. I'm quite new, and I've been needing Boost for something else I'm trying to compile...

I've been trying to compile Boost, but it's giving me errors. Unfortunately, I can't use Debian's apt-get to get Boost, because I need version 1.5 or greater, and apt-get (for this version of Debian) only gets 1.49.0.

I've put some feedback it gave me below. I've already run ./b2 (no arguments) before, so that's where the found targets are coming from. I'm not sure why I'm getting these errors...A whole bunch of header files are reported missing. I tried re-downloading Boost, and using a different format (tar.bz2 instead of tar.bz), but it still does the same thing.

Building the Boost C++ Libraries.

Performing configuration checks

    - 32-bit                   : yes (cached)
    - arm                      : no (cached)
    - mips1                    : no (cached)
    - power                    : no (cached)
    - sparc                    : no (cached)
    - x86                      : yes (cached)
error: No best alternative for libs/coroutine/build/allocator_sources
    next alternative: required properties: <link>static <target-os>windows <threading>multi
        not matched
    next alternative: required properties: <link>static <segmented-stacks>on <threading>multi
        not matched
    next alternative: required properties: <link>static <threading>multi
        not matched
    - has_icu builds           : yes (cached)
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - zlib                     : yes (cached)
    - iconv (libc)             : yes (cached)
    - icu                      : yes (cached)
    - compiler-supports-ssse3 : yes (cached)
    - compiler-supports-avx2   : yes (cached)
    - gcc visibility           : yes (cached)
    - long double support      : yes (cached)
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
    - zlib                     : yes (cached)

Component configuration:

(All are building)

...patience...
...patience...
...patience...
...patience...
...patience...
...found 11439 targets...
...updating 70 targets...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o
libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp:20:56: fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

    "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_IOSTREAMS_USE_DEPRECATED -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o" "libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp"

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>bzip2.o...
...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0 for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0...
...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so for lack of <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so.1.54.0...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/numeric.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13:0,
                 from ./boost/python/numeric.hpp:8,
                 from libs/python/src/numeric.cpp:6:
./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:75:24: fatal error: patchlevel.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/bzip2.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>bzip2.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>bzip2.o...
...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a...
gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/numeric.o
In file included from ./boost/python/detail/prefix.hpp:13:0,
                 from ./boost/python/numeric.hpp:8,
                 from libs/python/src/numeric.cpp:6:
./boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:75:24: fatal error: patchlevel.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

(From here on, I got a lot of errors that look like these ones.)

"g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE -DBOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB -DNDEBUG -I"." -I"/usr/include/python2.7" -c -o "bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/function_doc_signature.o" "libs/python/src/object/function_doc_signature.cpp"

...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/function_doc_signature.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>numeric.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>numeric.o...
...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_python.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_python.a...
...failed updating 58 targets...
...skipped 12 targets...