I use modern gcc

smart@thinkpad$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/14.1.1/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Configured with: /build/gcc/src/gcc/configure --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,d,fortran,go,lto,m2,objc,obj-c++,rust --enable-bootstrap --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/gcc/-/issues --with-build-config=bootstrap-lto --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-cet=auto --enable-checking=release --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-default-pie --enable-default-ssp --enable-gnu-indirect-function --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-libstdcxx-backtrace --enable-link-serialization=1 --enable-linker-build-id --enable-lto --enable-multilib --enable-plugin --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --disable-libssp --disable-libstdcxx-pch --disable-werror
Thread model: posix
Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
gcc version 14.1.1 20240720 (GCC) 

Let's try to build the old boost 1.58.0

smart@thinkpad$ ./bootstrap.sh
Building Boost.Build engine with toolset gcc... 
Failed to build Boost.Build build engine
Consult 'bootstrap.log' for more details

This does not work due to changes in the default language standard.

smart@thinkpad$ cat ./bootstrap.log 
###
### Using 'gcc' toolset.
###
rm -rf bootstrap
mkdir bootstrap
gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c constants.c debug.c execcmd.c frames.c function.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c object.c option.c output.c parse.c pathsys.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c class.c cwd.c native.c md5.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c execunix.c fileunix.c pathunix.c
modules/path.c: In function ‘path_exists’:
modules/path.c:16:12: error: implicit declaration of function ‘file_query’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
   16 |     return file_query( list_front( lol_get( frame->args, 0 ) ) ) ?
      |            ^~~~~~~~~~

Let's fix it

smart@thinkpad$ sed -i '133s/=\(.*\)/="gcc -Wno-implicit-function-declaration"/' tools/build/src/engine/build.sh
smart@thinkpad$ sed -i '637s/^\(.\{13\}\)/\1 -Wno-implicit-function-declaration/' tools/build/src/engine/build.jam

Now we good

Building Boost.Build engine with toolset gcc... tools/build/src/engine/bin.linuxx86_64/b2
Unicode/ICU support for Boost.Regex?... /usr
Generating Boost.Build configuration in project-config.jam...

Bootstrapping is done. To build, run:

    ./b2
    
To adjust configuration, edit 'project-config.jam'.
Further information:

   - Command line help:
     ./b2 --help
     
   - Getting started guide: 
     http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
     
   - Boost.Build documentation:
     http://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/index.html