diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 97ea398..5b50c9c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ else (MSVC)
     set(CPPCHECK_ARG_TEMPLATE   "--template=gcc")
     if (CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
         # GCC flags
+       #add_compile_options() is not supported with CMake 2.8.7 of Ubuntu 12.04 on Travis-CI
         add_definitions(-rdynamic -fstack-protector-all -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wformat-security -Winit-self -Wswitch-default -Wswitch-enum -Wfloat-equal -Wshadow -Wcast-qual -Wconversion -Wlogical-op -Winline)
     elseif ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "Clang")
         # Clang flags
@@ -211,11 +212,12 @@ endif (SQLITECPP_BUILD_EXAMPLES)
 
 option(SQLITECPP_BUILD_TESTS "Build and run tests." OFF)
 if (SQLITECPP_BUILD_TESTS)
-    # add the subdirectory containing the CMakeLists.txt for the gtest library
+    # deactivate some warnings for compiling the gtest library
     if (NOT MSVC)
-        add_definitions(-Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-long-long -Wno-conversion -Wno-switch-enum)
+        add_definitions(-Wno-variadic-macros -Wno-long-long -Wno-switch-enum -Wno-float-equal -Wno-conversion-null -Wno-switch-default -Wno-pedantic)
     endif (NOT MSVC)
 
+    # add the subdirectory containing the CMakeLists.txt for the gtest library
     add_subdirectory(googletest) 
     include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/googletest/include")
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b1bd492..a7ba919 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ ln -s ../examples examples
 ctest .         # make test
 ```
 
+#### CMake options
+
+  * For more options on customizing the build, see the [CMakeLists.txt](https://github.com/SRombauts/SQLiteCpp/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt) file.
+
 #### Troubleshooting
 
 Under Linux, if you get muliple linker errors like "undefined reference to sqlite3_xxx",
diff --git a/cpplint.py b/cpplint.py
index 6f4e751..8633c07 100755
--- a/cpplint.py
+++ b/cpplint.py
@@ -992,8 +992,13 @@ def Error(filename, linenum, category, confidence, message):
   if _ShouldPrintError(category, confidence, linenum):
     _cpplint_state.IncrementErrorCount(category)
     if _cpplint_state.output_format == 'vs7':
-      sys.stderr.write('%s(%s):  %s  [%s] [%d]\n' % (
-          filename, linenum, message, category, confidence))
+      # SRombauts:
+      if confidence == 5:
+        sys.stderr.write('%s(%s): error: %s  [%s] [%d]\n' % (
+           filename, linenum, message, category, confidence))
+      else: # confidence == [0-4]
+        sys.stderr.write('%s(%s): warning: %s  [%s] [%d]\n' % (
+            filename, linenum, message, category, confidence))
     elif _cpplint_state.output_format == 'eclipse':
       # SRombauts:
       if confidence == 5:
@@ -1002,7 +1007,7 @@ def Error(filename, linenum, category, confidence, message):
       elif confidence == 4:
         sys.stderr.write('%s:%s: warning: %s  [%s] [%d]\n' % (
             filename, linenum, message, category, confidence))
-      else:
+      else: # confidence == [0-3]
         sys.stderr.write('%s:%s: note: %s  [%s] [%d]\n' % (
             filename, linenum, message, category, confidence))
     else:
diff --git a/googletest b/googletest
index 4650552..23574bf 160000
--- a/googletest
+++ b/googletest
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 4650552ff637bb44ecf7784060091cbed3252211
+Subproject commit 23574bf2333f834ff665f894c97bef8a5b33a0a9
diff --git a/include/SQLiteCpp/Exception.h b/include/SQLiteCpp/Exception.h
index 4bf3ede..337807c 100644
--- a/include/SQLiteCpp/Exception.h
+++ b/include/SQLiteCpp/Exception.h
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public:
 #endif
 
 // Detect whether the compiler supports C++11 noexcept exception specifications.
-#if (defined(__GNUC__) && (__GNUC__ >= 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7 ) && defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__))
+#if (defined(__GNUC__) && ((__GNUC__ == 4 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 7) || (__GNUC__ > 4)) && defined(__GXX_EXPERIMENTAL_CXX0X__))
 // GCC 4.7 and following have noexcept
 #elif defined(__clang__) && __has_feature(cxx_noexcept)
 // Clang 3.0 and above have noexcept