I can make a ros specific PCL package (there is no 'official' pcl 
package). What do I need to do to get rosdep rospackage to recognize 
that it's installed?

On 04/04/2012 06:36 PM, Ken Conley wrote:
> ROS uses a modified version of PCL.  As you are on Arch, there
> currently is no packaging for this alternate version of PCL.  Most
> system dependencies are equivalent, but PCL shares message data
> structures and thus requires alternate build flags to be compatible
> with ROS.
>
> The trees that we use to build various system dependencies within our
> installation prefix can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/wg-debs
>
> I don't know of the correct way to deal with this on Arch.
>
>   - Ken
>
> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Traveler Hauptman
> <traveler.hauptman@iit.it>  wrote:
>> BTW This dependency error from rospack is contrary to rosdep which finds
>> pcl.
>>
>>
>> On 4/04/2012 3:42 p.m., Traveler wrote:
>>
>> 4. rosmake appears to happily build the things that don't depend on pcl.
>> I get a compiler error for pcl_ros and for a bunch of things I get a
>> dependency error like:
>>
>> [rosbuild] Building package depth_image_proc
>>     Failed to invoke /opt/ros/fuerte/bin/rospack deps-manifests
>> depth_image_proc
>>     [rospack] Error: package/stack depth_image_proc depends on
>> non-existent package pcl
>>
>>
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