this is the corrected sequence of commands:
CXXFLAGS="-Wno-multichar"
.../configure COMPILED_BY="RSM" --with-boost=/usr/lib64
--disable-io-restrictions
--with-boost-thread=boost_thread LIBS=-Lboost_system
export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L/usr/lib64"
make clean
make check
make install
