It sounds like you shouldn't be making yet another crappy coin...
He's already specified it's not to be released, so why do you or anyone else care about its qualities?
Creating an altcoin is a great way to learn some coding skills and linux commands if you've never used them before. Cut him a bit of slack for trying something interesting!
To the OP, it looks like your boost libraries were not configured perfectly. If you aren't already, try this guide:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=149479.0Follow it TO THE LETTER and you'll have it compiling in no time (although some of the libraries take hours to compile

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