There are several ways to get the boostrap build if you installed with "--nobuild".  

The easiest way is to "cd ~/ros && make" Where you change ~/ros to the directory you copied things into.   

You can also run "rosmake --rosdep-install --bootstrap" which is what the above will call through to.  

Note: you will have to have your package paths setup before you do either of these.  And the paths in the setup.sh file may need to change if you are a different user or a different directory on the new machine.  

Tully

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Miguel Prada Sarasola <miguel.register@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Josh,

I didn't think that rosinstall compiled anything, but now that you
mention, it seems pretty obvious that it must compile some of the most
basic utilities (i.e. roscd, rosmake, etc). Am I wrong?

And in case those are compiled by rosinstall, which would be the best
way to compile them if you specify "--nobuild" option? I can see there's
an "--update" option for rosinstall, would this be the way?

Regards,
Miguel.