configure and Makefile where?

The online documentation at
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#link-your-program-to-a-boost-library
says under section 5.1 "Easy Build and Install" that there
is a configure and Makefile file, but in the svn trunk
these files are missing.

I wanted to use the filesystem library but it brings errors like
"undefined reference to `boost::system::get_system_category()'" etc.
How can I apply what is written in section 5.1 of the boost manual?