diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c49ee4bc..36eca06b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ AC_ARG_WITH([metis],
 
 AC_ARG_ENABLE([parallel],
         [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-parallel],[enable mpi parallelization])],
-	[AC_SUBST([MPI_INCLUDES], "-DPARALLEL -I$metisdir/include -DMETIS")]
+	[AC_SUBST([MPI_INCLUDES], "-I$metisdir/include -DMETIS")]
+        [CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -DPARALLEL"]
 	[AC_SUBST([MPI_LIBS], "-L$metisdir/lib -lmetis")]
         )       
 #          -DVTRACE
diff --git a/libsrc/meshing/parallelmesh.cpp b/libsrc/meshing/parallelmesh.cpp
index a4bdee69..92241ab1 100644
--- a/libsrc/meshing/parallelmesh.cpp
+++ b/libsrc/meshing/parallelmesh.cpp
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 namespace metis {
   extern "C" {
 
-#include <metis.h>
+#include <metis5.h>
 
 #if METIS_VER_MAJOR >= 5
 #define METIS5
@@ -802,6 +802,7 @@ namespace netgen
     METIS_PartMeshDual (&ne, &nn, &eptr[0], &eind[0], NULL, NULL, &ncommon, &nparts,
 			NULL, NULL,
 			&edgecut, &epart[0], &npart[0]);
+
     /*
     METIS_PartMeshNodal (&ne, &nn, &eptr[0], &eind[0], NULL, NULL, &nparts,
 			 NULL, NULL,