diff --git a/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/GeometryKernel.hh b/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/GeometryKernel.hh
index b31e571e2993f5be06e79fefef564d48b878ea27..6a82ac26d533007a6542e64de899fb564fb9bea1 100644
--- a/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/GeometryKernel.hh
+++ b/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/GeometryKernel.hh
@@ -135,13 +135,13 @@ public:
 
     typename PointT::value_type length(const EdgeHandle& _eh) const {
 
-        const Edge& e = TopologyKernelT::edge(_eh);
+        const typename TopologyKernelT::Edge& e = TopologyKernelT::edge(_eh);
         return (vertex(e.to_vertex()) - vertex(e.from_vertex())).length();
     }
 
     PointT vector(const EdgeHandle& _eh) const {
 
-        const Edge& e = TopologyKernelT::edge(_eh);
+        const typename TopologyKernelT::Edge& e = TopologyKernelT::edge(_eh);
         return (vertex(e.to_vertex()) - vertex(e.from_vertex()));
     }
 
diff --git a/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/TopologyKernel.cc b/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/TopologyKernel.cc
index 62e8b300f40e67fe6762846d112235213f58db05..66133c6322176c75db4c45fbb163f67dd815a1b4 100644
--- a/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/TopologyKernel.cc
+++ b/src/OpenVolumeMesh/Core/TopologyKernel.cc
@@ -1438,6 +1438,7 @@ void TopologyKernel::compute_face_bottom_up_incidences() {
                 incident_cell_per_hf_[hf_it->idx()] = CellHandle(i);
 
             } else {
+
                 std::cerr << "Detected non-three-manifold configuration!" << std::endl;
                 std::cerr << "Connectivity probably won't work." << std::endl;
                 continue;