plugin_tool linking error

[2ros0]

System information: 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

Building ROS Lunar from source as directed here: http://wiki.ros.org/Installation/Source. At the step ./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, during compilation of pluginlib, the executable plugin_tool fails at the linking step with the following error:

librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::cpp_regex_traits_implementation<char>::transform[abi:cxx11](char const*, char const*) const' librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::raise_runtime_error(std::runtime_error const&)'
librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::put_mem_block(void*)' librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::perl_matcher<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char const*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits, std::allocator > >, std::allocator<boost::sub_match<__gnu_cxx::__normal_iterator<char const*, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits, std::allocator > > > >, boost::regex_traits<char, boost::cpp_regex_traits > >::construct_init(boost::basic_regex<char, boost::regex_traits<char, boost::cpp_regex_traits > > const&, boost::regex_constants::_match_flags)'
librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::get_mem_block()' librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::verify_options(unsigned int, boost::regex_constants::_match_flags)'
librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::get_default_error_string(boost::regex_constants::error_type)' librosconsole.so: undefined reference to boost::re_detail::cpp_regex_traits_implementation::transform_primary[abi:cxx11](char const*, char const*) const'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

[2ros0]

Seems this is more of a problem upstream and not within pluginlib. Possible error with boost version.

[nuclearsandwich]

Continuing the discussion in ros/rosdistro#20184.