diff --git a/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h b/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
index 4cb703dfaa2..0f5470a545d 100644
--- a/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
+++ b/Installation/include/CGAL/config.h
@@ -117,10 +117,18 @@
 #  define BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_TEMPLATES
 #endif
 
+
 // workaround for the bug https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/12534
 // That bug was introduced in Boost 1.62 and fixed in 1.63.
 #if BOOST_VERSION >= 106200 && BOOSTS_VERSION < 106300
 #  include <boost/container/flat_map.hpp>
+#endif=======
+
+// Hack: boost does not detect correctly the cxx11 features of ICC
+// We declare by hand two features that we need (variadic templates and rvalue references)
+#ifdef __INTEL_COMPILER
+#  undef BOOST_NO_CXX11_VARIADIC_TEMPLATES
+#  undef BOOST_NO_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES
 #endif
 
 #include <CGAL/version.h>