--- configure.ac.orig	2018-12-07 22:25:32 UTC
+++ configure.ac
@@ -75,11 +75,11 @@ fi
 # for now we demand boost, because on some systems gcc4.8 is installed still
 # and that fails on regex.
 
-AX_BOOST_BASE( [1.50],
-	       [AX_BOOST_REGEX
-	        LIBS="$LIBS $BOOST_REGEX_LIB"
-                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOOST_REGEX, 1 , [Define to 1 if you have boost regular expresions] )],
-               [AC_MSG_ERROR([No Regular expression support available. Please install libboost-regex-dev])])
+#AX_BOOST_BASE( [1.50], # Boost detection is broken: https://github.com/LanguageMachines/ticcutils/issues/18
+#	       [AX_BOOST_REGEX
+#	        LIBS="$LIBS $BOOST_REGEX_LIB"
+#                AC_DEFINE(HAVE_BOOST_REGEX, 1 , [Define to 1 if you have boost regular expresions] )],
+#               [AC_MSG_ERROR([No Regular expression support available. Please install libboost-regex-dev])])
 
 PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG