"Member is not a structure or union" build failure(s) — clang 2.9

The following use case is failing with clang while working with g++
template
struct ContTokenizer
{
    typedef typename Container::const_iterator const_iterator;

    ContTokenizer(Container* cont)
        {
            cont.begin();
        }
};
PackageVersionSupposed error messageFull log Bug report
calf 0.0.18.6-3./calf/buffer.h:156:20: error: member reference base type 'const data_type *' (aka 'const typename T::data_type *') is not a structure or union Log
cqrlib 1.1.2-1./cqrlib.h:576:31: error: member reference base type 'CPPQR *' is not a structure or union Log
kmplayer 1:0.11.2c-1kmplayershared.h:217:82: error: member reference base type 'SharedData *' is not a structure or union n/a
lmms 0.4.10-2buffer.h:156:20: error: member reference base type 'const data_type *' (aka 'const typename T::data_type *') is not a structure or union Log
meshlab 1.3.0a+dfsg1-2../../../vcglib/vcg/simplex/face/pos.h:217:24: error: member reference base type 'typename FaceType::FaceType *const' is not a structure or union Log
mimetic 0.9.7-1../../mimetic/tokenizer.h:143:52: error: member reference base type 'const Container *' is not a structure or union Log
suphp 0.7.1-1./SmartPtr.hpp:153:14: error: member reference base type 'SmartPtr *' is not a structure or union Log

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