diff --git a/cmake/host_compiler_id.cmake b/cmake/host_compiler_id.cmake
index 8ff64b99f8a..2a74d703c4f 100644
--- a/cmake/host_compiler_id.cmake
+++ b/cmake/host_compiler_id.cmake
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ message(STATUS "Host compiler kind: ${DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER_KIND}")
 # Preprocessor prints out major and minor versions of the compiler when
 # compiling host_compiler_id.cpp. Using the regex below to extract
 # the versions from the preprocessor message.
-string(REGEX MATCH "([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)" _ "${STDERR_MESSAGE}")
+string(REGEX MATCH "host compiler version: ([0-9]+\\.[0-9]+)" _ "${STDERR_MESSAGE}")
 set(DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER_VER ${CMAKE_MATCH_1} CACHE INTERNAL "")
 
 string(REPLACE "." ";" DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER_VER_LIST ${DPCPP_HOST_COMPILER_VER})
diff --git a/cmake/host_compiler_id.cpp b/cmake/host_compiler_id.cpp
index 47101f2b266..39a34828f07 100644
--- a/cmake/host_compiler_id.cpp
+++ b/cmake/host_compiler_id.cpp
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ int main() {
 
 #if (defined __GNUC__) && (!defined(__INTEL_COMPILER)) \
         && (!defined(__INTEL_LLVM_COMPILER)) && (!defined(__clang_major__))
-#pragma message(STRINGIFY(__GNUC__) "." STRINGIFY(__GNUC_MINOR__))
+#pragma message("host compiler version: " STRINGIFY(__GNUC__) "." STRINGIFY( \
+        __GNUC_MINOR__))
     return 0;
 #else
     breaks_on_purpose
@@ -31,7 +32,8 @@ int main() {
 #elif defined(TRY_CLANG)
 
 #if (!defined(__INTEL_LLVM_COMPILER)) && (defined(__clang_major__))
-#pragma message(STRINGIFY(__clang_major__) "." STRINGIFY(__clang_minor__))
+#pragma message("host compiler version: " STRINGIFY( \
+        __clang_major__) "." STRINGIFY(__clang_minor__))
     return 0;
 #else
     breaks_on_purpose