[vtkusers] Compilation Errors error: ISO C++ says that these are ambiguous, even though the worst convesion for the first is better than theworst conversion for the second

[Luca Pallozzi Lavorante]

Hi Kent, thanks for the advice.
I will try again with the modification you suggested.
By the way, I am using gcc 3.4.2 in the Fedora Core 3 environment.

Greetings

    Luca

Kent Eschenberg wrote:

> --On July 20, 2005 07:53:06 PM <lucapl at rc.unesp.br> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to compile VTK 4.2 on Fedora and got the error in the 
>> subject
>> (file ./IO/vtkBMPReader.cxx). Does anybody  know how to solve the 
>> problem?
>
>
> You didn't mention the compiler you are using; I assume its gcc.
>
> Edit places where "seekg" is called with its first argument equal to 
> the sum of two or more terms (e.g., a+b or a+b+c). The fix is to just 
> reverse the order of the terms (e.g., b+a or b+c+a). Changes will be 
> needed in two places in each of two files, vtkBMPReader.cxx and 
> vtkImageReader.cxx, found in VTK directory IO.
>
> The bug in the compiler was fixed but I don't know if its yet been 
> released.
>
> Kent Eschenberg
> Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
>