Re: [boost] VS2017 version 15.3

On 17 August 2017 at 06:21, degski via Boost wrote:

On 16 August 2017 at 19:52, John Maddock via Boost wrote:

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On 16/08/2017 17:29, Róbert Špir via Boost wrote:

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Hi all,

after upgrading my installation of vs2017 to version 15.3 (released two days ago) I'm receiving a lot of "Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results" messages during building the project which uses boost (but everything builds and works fine).

The cl.exe version in vs2017 15.3 was changed to 19.11.25506

We know :(

There's a patch just gone into develop, actually if we're really going to do another RC, then that might be a good candidate to include in it if the release managers agree (purely on the grounds that it will reduce the amount of traffic all reporting the same thing!). The actual patch is trivial BTW: https://github.com/boostorg/config/commit/ a0147b73e8bde8f4b2 c19c96166353dba8fa9914.

I think the message "Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results" should include some word(s) to indicate that Boost is producing this message, something like: "Boost.Config (Release 1.65): Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results".

It's just very (too) confusing, that when you just upgraded your compiler, a message with no origin pops up, while at the same time (in my case) your code still compiles (so where to look?). One wonders whether the upgrade went ok and wastes valuable time.

degski

I agree, I pointed the same problem there: https://github.com/boostorg/config/issues/176#issuecomment-322462335 Joël Lamotte