GCC and Boost version requirements

[cicdguy]

Hello,

I was attempting to install later on RHEL 6.6, which has the following version of gcc:

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11)
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

and version 1.41 of the Boost C++ libraries installed on it.

What are the minimum requirements for Boost and GCC?

Also, is it possible to use autoconf and make to build this package? That way we can specify an $INCLUDE_PATH for newer versions Boost libraries. Overriding the gcc version can easily be accomplished by adding it to the $PATH.