If you look in ros/rosdep.yaml, under the log4cxx rule, you'll see an
example of how we do a workaround for log4cxx on hardy. You can write
your own bash scripts to download and build from tarball.

 - Ken

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Randolph Voorhies <voorhies@usc.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>  I'm trying to write a patch for ROS so that Mandriva 2010 can be supported
> (my advisor is French, and insists on the distro!).  I thought I had
> everything figured out and submitted a
> https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2783 ticket  and a patch but quickly
> realized that there is no liblog4cxx in Mandriva's repos.  I can easily
> compile and install liblog4cxx by hand, but I'm not sure of the best way to
> let rosdep know I have done so. I can easily hack around this problem by
> making liblog4cxx map to libc or something in rosdep.yaml, but I'm hoping
> someone has a more elegant solution?
>
> Thanks!
>  Rand
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