[vtkusers] Build Problem with SGI C++ ANSI/ISO compilation

[Jean M. Favre]

Fred Dech wrote:
> 
> hi.
> 
> i'm having mixed success building VTK 4.0 on an SGI running
> IRIX 6.5.17m, C++ 7.3.  to generate the Makefiles, i used the CMake binary
> 1.4.7, since CMake 1.6.2 would give me early build failures.
> 
> if i do not set "VTK_USE_ANSI_STDLIB" to 'ON' and avoid using the -LANG:std CC
> flag, i can build the entire VTK successfully.  however, i would like to also
> build ITK Insight, which requires that VTK be built using ANSI standard
> iostream lib.
> 
> i only encounter compilation errors in the $(VTKHOME)/IO directory.
> the errors are isolated to '+' operator overloading ambiguities with
> std::fpos<mbstate_t>::operator+(std::streamoff)...
> 
>

See this answer posted in December:

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2002-December/015086.html