diff --git a/contrib/other-builds/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.make.core/specs.cpp b/contrib/other-builds/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.make.core/specs.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b1378917..000000000
--- a/contrib/other-builds/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.cdt.make.core/specs.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-
diff --git a/mert/ForestRescore.cpp b/mert/ForestRescore.cpp
index 009152e35..8638ebc97 100644
--- a/mert/ForestRescore.cpp
+++ b/mert/ForestRescore.cpp
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ static void GetBestHypothesis(size_t vertexId, const Graph& graph, const vector<
 
 void Viterbi(const Graph& graph, const SparseVector& weights, float bleuWeight, const ReferenceSet& references , size_t sentenceId, const std::vector<FeatureStatsType>& backgroundBleu,  HgHypothesis* bestHypo)
 {
-  BackPointer init(NULL,kMinScore);
+  BackPointer init((const Edge*) NULL,kMinScore);
   vector<BackPointer> backPointers(graph.VertexSize(),init);
   HgBleuScorer bleuScorer(references, graph, sentenceId, backgroundBleu);
   vector<FeatureStatsType> winnerStats(kBleuNgramOrder*2+1);