Boost library does not provide the name of the library to link to

#127: undefined reference to `boost::system::get_system_category()
I had trouble finding out the name of the proper library to link to.
I asked here:
Is there an intelligent way to know the name of the library to link to at compile time? (Linux/Kubuntu)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3467153/is-there-an-intelligent-way-t...
and the concensus was that this was a documentation problem (in this case a lack of documentation of the boost libraries).