We needed this for Boost < 1.48, but per our Wiki on building OSRM:
> On Ubuntu 12.04 you will be limited to OSRM tag v0.3.10 because
> later versions **require Boost v1.49+** and installing this
> causes problems with libluabind-dev package.
Thus, rip it out!
To keep the commits atomic and isolated, I also refactored all call
sites that used the functionality from the portability fix.
While doing this, I also simplified the monster of around ~100 lines of
file path checking --- lambda's are awesome' use them!
References:
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/1750710
- https://github.com/Project-OSRM/osrm-backend/wiki/Building-on-Ubuntu
