[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #13176: "Unknown compiler version - please [...]" text content should be improved

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #13176: "Unknown compiler version - please [...]" text content should be improved
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-24 16:51:26

#13176: "Unknown compiler version - please [...]" text content should be improved
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 Reporter:  Daniel Krügler <daniel.kruegler@…>  |      Owner:  John Maddock
     Type:  Feature Requests                    |     Status:  new
Milestone:  To Be Determined                    |  Component:  config
  Version:  Boost 1.64.0                        |   Severity:  Problem
 Keywords:                                      |
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 The compiler specific .hpp files in boost/config/ all have a fallback text
 that is shown as message (or error message, depending on
 BOOST_ASSERT_CONFIG being set or not) with the following text:

 {{{
 "Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the
 results"
 }}}

 We met this message recently after an update of the VS 2017 compiler from
 15.2 to 15.3 (which decided to change _MSC_VER from 1910 to 1911), see
 ticket:13167 and given Microsofts new compiler version policy it is
 expected that this message will occur quite often in the future. But the
 request of this issue is different from ticket:13167: Please extend that
 text output to make clear **who** is complaining here, for example

 {{{
 "boost compiler configuration: Unknown compiler version - please run the
 configure tests and report the results"
 }}}

 I'm strongly encouraging to provide something like this text enhancement,
 because the text appears in between a lot of other compiler messages, so
 the unaware reader of the full preprocessor output cannot remotely guess
 at this point, where this request comes from. I'm willing to provide a
 concrete pull request once there is consensus about the concrete text
 change. Personally I'm open in regard to the details, but my suggestion
 would be to provide additional context information. I would guess that the
 minimum text change would simply be along the lines of:

 {{{
 "Boost: Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and
 report the results"
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac10/boost/ticket/13176>
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