[vtkusers] Fw: Installation error by make in vtkImageReader

[Shuaib Karim]

I am trying to install VTK 4.2. Could anyone give some help please.

Shuaib
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shuaib Karim" <skarim at ifs.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <vtkusers at vtk.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 8:09 PM
Subject: Installation error by make in vtkImageReader


> Hi,
> Excuse-me for asking maybe very simple installation problem of VTK.
> After running cmake -i on my Linux machine (Fedora core), when  I run 
> make, I get many errors of following type:
> -------------------------------------------
> /IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:370: error: ISO C++ says that these are ambiguous, 
> even though the worst conversion for the first is better than the worst 
> conversion for the second:
> -----------------------------
> Before I corrected the same type of error for vtkBMReader.cxx (by editing 
> the file), and then I get a series of errors like
> ------------------------
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:438:   instantiated from 
> here
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:370: error: ISO C++ says 
> that these are ambiguous, even though the worst conversion for the first 
> is better than the worst conversion for the second:
> /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/3.4.3/../../../../include/c++/3.4.3/bits/postypes.h:176: 
> note: candidate 1: std::fpos<_StateT> 
> std::fpos<_StateT>::operator+(std::streamoff) const [with _StateT = 
> mbstate_t]
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:370: note: candidate 2: 
> operator+(std::streamoff, long int) <built-in>
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:404:   instantiated from 
> `void vtkImageReaderUpdate1(vtkImageReader*, vtkImageData*, T*) [with T = 
> vtkImageReader::ExecuteData::VTK_TT]'
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:438:   instantiated from 
> here
> /home/skarim/VisToolKit/VTK/IO/vtkImageReader.cxx:382: error: ISO C++ says 
> that these are ambiguous, even though the worst conversion for the first 
> is better than the worst conversion for the second:
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> Could anyone give me some hint if there is any solution other than editing 
> the individual files.
>
> With a lot of thanks,
>
> Shuaib
>
>