one thing that could be interesting here would be if LibBitcoin's configure would print out whether it will use a shared or static build of Boost. this is an extreme corner case though.
checking for exit in -lboost_locale-mt... yes
configure: boost_locale_LIBS : -lboost_locale-mt
checking whether the Boost::Log library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_log-mt... yes
configure: boost_log_LIBS : -lboost_log-mt
checking whether the Boost::Program_Options library is available... yes
checking for exit in -lboost_program_options-mt... yes
