Boost1.40-dev error in electric

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Thanks for the answer. I forgot to mention. I had done make clean . rosmake --pre-clean did not fix it either.

This was not a standard ros package. It was a package someone wrote which worked under diamondback (still does if I switch back). So I could not just get a fresh copy. In order to start fresh I created a ros package with the dependencies, edited the CMakelist.txt and Manifest files, and copied the msg, src and include folders to make sure an incompatibility between the msg headers is not causing the problem. I still get the same error.

That made me think it can be a problem with ros electric and boost library. (rebuilding libboost1.40-dev - as suggested in another thread- did not fix the problem either). Does this have to do anything with rosdep.yaml file?

I have provided a traceback of the error here. My apologies for the detailed post. I appreciate any help.

/usr/include/boost/math/special_functions/math_fwd.hpp:615: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ token 

In file included from 
/opt/ros/electric/stacks/ros_comm/utilities/rostime/include/ros/time.h:58,

from /opt/ros/electric/stacks/ros_comm/clients/cpp/roscpp_serialization/include/ros/serialization.h:34,

from /opt/ros/electric/stacks/common_msgs/geometry_msgs/msg_gen/cpp/include/geometry_msgs/PointStamped.h:8,

from /opt/ros/electric/stacks/geometry/tf/include/tf/transform_datatypes.h:36,