Hi William,

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed on trunk (r10599) and will
be in ROS 1.2.2.

best,
Ken

On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:34 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have noticed that when using rosmake if you enter anything that exits
> through optparse ( rosmake --help for example ) then you get an undesired
> traceback.  I looked at the way it is being used and I cannot figure why the
> traceback is being generated.  transcript:
> $ rosmake --asdf
> Usage: rosmake [options] [PACKAGE]...
> rosmake: error: no such option: --asdf
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosmake", line 65, in <module>
>     if rma.main():
>   File "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosmake/src/rosmake/rosmake.py", line
> 706, in main
>     options, args = parser.parse_args()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1396, in parse_args
>     self.error(str(err))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1578, in error
>     self.exit(2, "%s: error: %s\n" % (self.get_prog_name(), msg))
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1568, in exit
>     sys.exit(status)
> SystemExit: 2
> OR
> $ rosmake --help
> Usage: rosmake [options] [PACKAGE]...
> Options:
>   -h, --help            show this help message and exit
> ...
>   --status-rate=STATUS_UPDATE_RATE
>                         How fast to update the status bar in Hz.  Default:
> 5Hz
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosmake", line 65, in <module>
>     if rma.main():
>   File "/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosmake/src/rosmake/rosmake.py", line
> 706, in main
>     options, args = parser.parse_args()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1394, in parse_args
>     stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1434, in _process_args
>     self._process_long_opt(rargs, values)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1509, in _process_long_opt
>     option.process(opt, value, values, self)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 788, in process
>     self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 811, in take_action
>     parser.exit()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py", line 1568, in exit
>     sys.exit(status)
> SystemExit: 0
> The common case is that optparse.py is used to exit the script rather then
> letting the rosmake script finish normally.
> My setup:
> Linux sakaru 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> Desktop running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
> CTurtle binary 1.2.x
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. execute any rosmake with a passive execution, ie 'rosmake --help' or
> 'rosmake --asdffj'
> 2. Expect rosmake to perform normally except for a cosmetic traceback on the
> sys.exit(status)
> Thanks,
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> William Woodall
> Graduate Software Engineering
> Auburn University
> w@auburn.edu
> wjwwood@gmail.com
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
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