On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 02:53:00PM -0700, Brian Gerkey wrote:
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:53:00 -0700
> From: Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com>
> To: ros-users@code.ros.org
> Subject: Re: [ros-users] Reserved message names?
> 
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com> wrote:
> > To test Josh's hypothesis, you can try compiling with '-U Status', to
> > undefine any previous definition of that symbol.
> >
> > E.g., if you're building an executable called 'bookboot', you could
> > add this line to your CMakeLists.txt:
> >
> > rosbuild_add_compile_flags(bookboot -U Status)
> >
> > If that works (with your message still called 'Status'), then you'd
> > want to track down the #define of 'Status'.
> 
> As Josh pointed out, the above test won't actually work, because the
> command-line -D and -U options are processed before the source files.
> Instead, you can try *defining* Status on the command line to
> something unusual, then look for a compiler warning about
> redefinition.  E.g.:
> 

CMake generates preprocess targets which might be handy here:

  % cd build 
  
  % ls
  CMakeCache.txt  CMakeFiles/  Makefile  cmake_install.cmake
  
  % make help | grep \\.i
  ... src/add_two_ints_client.i
  ... src/add_two_ints_server.i
  ... src/listener.i
  ... src/talker.i
  
  % make src/talker.i
  Preprocessing CXX source to CMakeFiles/talker.dir/src/talker.i

then inspect CMakeFiles/talker.dir/src/talker.i, all the good stuff is
in there

-t