Hi Thuan,

The copy/paste is unnecessary. You just need to set the
ROS_PACKAGE_PATH environment variable to include the path to where you
checked out the other packages, e.g.:

ROS_PACKAGE_PATH=~/ros/:~/trunk-stuff

cheers,
Ken

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Vu Hong Thuan <thuanvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I downloaded packages from trunk for testing. In order to build them, I
> must do these following actions:
> In another folder not in trunk, i create a new package. I do it so that
> ros knows where my package is.
> - roscreate-pkg <name of package in trunk>
> Copy all files of the package in trunk to the new folder.
> Do rosmake in the new folder.
>
> These actions are very complex because I must build all depending packages.
> Are there other method for building packages in trunk?
> How ros knows the pakage existing in a folder rather than using
> roscreate-pkg and copy/paste?
> Thanks.
> Thuan.
>
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