I was going to call this "fuerte full-desktop compiles on arch" but
really it's mostly about tweaks to deal with gcc 4.7. (and boost 1.49)

A visualization is here:
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros-pkg/attachment/ticket/5417/ros.patch

I've already spent too much time on this and won't file bug reports
beyond this post.

-traveler