The Spider cluster is rather old. Therefore you need to set the compilers explicitly. In tcsh add these lines to ~/.cshrc
setenv LOFARSOFT <software path> setenv CC /usr/bin/gcc4 setenv FC /usr/bin/gfortran setenv CXX /usr/bin/g++4 source $LOFARSOFT/devel_common/scripts/init.csh
Also make sure it finds the correct python (2.6 is installed and should showup when running ./bootstrap )
Next problem to solve: Boost. I tried this with a force build
cd $LOFARSOFT/build/external/boost/ make install