Boost 1.56.0 which is currently installed by homebrew is broken. Just try to compile the following C++ program. It will fail.

#include <boost/graph/adjacency_matrix.hpp>

int main() {
}

Here are the steps to manually install Boost 1.55:

• Download Boost 1.55 here
• Extract the source and cd …

Even on OSX you should not be working with an admin account. Here are the steps to make homebrew usable for non admin users.

Assumptions

I assume brew has already been installed by an administrator and it's login is admin. Change admin below to the name of your admin account …

Problem: brew fails with "configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables"

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
python3 3.4.2_1
==> Upgrading python3
==> Downloading https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.4.2/Python-3.4.2.tar.xz
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/python3-3.4.2.tar.xz
==> ./configure --prefix …