After cloning the repo and trying to run ./configure or ./autogen.sh I got:
checking for Boost headers version >= 0.0.0... yes checking for Boost's header version... configure: error: invalid value: boost_major_version=
So I did:
cat configure | grep "boost_cv_lib_version="
And got:
boost_cv_lib_version=cat conftest.i
So I did:
dpkg -s libboost-dev | grep 'Version'
and I got:
Version: 1.58.0.1ubuntu1
So I changed the according line in configure to
version="1_58_0_1"
And then I could configure and make.