From 83e06283ac849da0e82a65178c8d19442c25a0d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabriel Corona <gabriel.corona@loria.fr>
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:54:32 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [cmake] Check g++ version before checking c++11 support

This way we display user friendlier error if g++ is not recent enough.
---
 CMakeLists.txt | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ba2abf569b..64b80175ae 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -g3")
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -g3")
 set(CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS "${CMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS} -g")
 
+if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
+  if (COMPILER_CXX_VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR STRLESS "4.7")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR
+            "SimGrid needs at least g++ version 4.7 to compile "
+	    "(c++11 support of previous versions is too limited).")
+  endif()
+endif()
+
 ## We need a decent support of the c++11 standard
 include(CheckCXXCompilerFlag)
 CHECK_CXX_COMPILER_FLAG("-std=c++11" COMPILER_SUPPORTS_CXX11)
@@ -33,13 +41,6 @@ else()
           "The compiler ${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER} has no C++11 support. "
 	  "Please use a decent C++ compiler.")
 endif()
-if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC)
-  if (COMPILER_CXX_VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR STRLESS "4.7")
-    message(FATAL_ERROR
-            "SimGrid needs g++ version 4.7 to compile "
-	    "(c++11 support of previous versions is too limited).")
-  endif()
-endif()
 
 ### And we need C11 standard, too
 include(CheckCCompilerFlag)
-- 
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