The ./configure script seems to be a bit braindead:

- When it can't find the compiler specified via "CXX" parameter, it instead
complains that it doesn't find the "boost" libraries.

- When the compiler can't find its libraries, it instead claims that it "cannot
find a suitable ZLIB library".

So doing a general check for a working compiler and linker environment first
(maybe trying to compile, link and run some "Hello World") would be helpful to
the end user.

I tried to ./configure POV-ray for using the Intel C++ compiler instead of GNU
C++, and ran into these error messages because - as I ultimately found out -
had forgotten to run the compiler's "iccvars.sh" script first.

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