This has caused issues in the past (see other error messages for example),
and escaping with \ doesn't seem to help in those cases.
AC_MSG_ERROR([You're trying to compile against boost older than 1.48 with
shared memory. Older versions of boost have a bug which causes segfaults in
offset_ptr implementation when compiled by GCC with optimisations enabled.
-See ticket #3025 for details.
+See ticket no. 3025 for details.
Either update boost to newer version or use --without-shared-memory.
Note that most users likely don't need shared memory support.