On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Chris Bruner wrote: > Two errors, the first trivial. > In the Gentoo install wiki > http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Gentoo > It says to "make install" should be "sudo make install" Please feel free to edit the Gentoo wiki page. That page is maintained by the ROS Gentoo Community, of which you are a part. > The second error is more difficult. > When actually doing the install, it does part of it, but then fails at > catlin > This is the actual end of the install attempt. It was made with > > cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ros/fuerte -DSETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT=OFF > >  notice that the error line contains deb stuff. This looks like some issue with SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT not being processed. You may want to try with a clean and fully up-to-date tree just to make sure the wrong setting wasn't there. The underlying CMake variable that appears to be getting the wrong value is SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA, which should be set to empty. - Ken > > > -- Installing: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/test > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/test/download_checkmd5.py > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/test/runtests.py > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/catkin-config.cmake.in > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/catkin_project.cmake > -- Installing: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/em > -- Up-to-date: > /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/em/topologically_traverse.cmake.em > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/em/pkg-config.pc.em > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/em/manifest.xml.em > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/all.cmake > -- Up-to-date: > /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin//cmake/check_unused_arguments.cmake > -- Up-to-date: /opt/ros/fuerte/share/catkin/cmake/tests.cmake > + '[' -n '' ']' > + cd /home/chris/ros-underlay/catkin > + /usr/bin/env > PYTHONPATH=/opt/ros/fuerte/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:/home/chris/ros-underlay/build/gen/py > CATKIN_BINARY_DIR=/home/chris/ros-underlay/build /usr/bin/python > /home/chris/ros-underlay/catkin/setup.py install --install-layout=deb > --prefix=/opt/ros/fuerte > usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] >   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] >   or: setup.py --help-commands >   or: setup.py cmd --help > > error: option --install-layout not recognized > CMake Error at catkin/CMakeFiles/safe_execute_install.cmake:5 (message): >  Error executing process with arguments > Call Stack (most recent call first): >  catkin/cmake_install.cmake:119 (INCLUDE) >  cmake_install.cmake:37 (INCLUDE) > > > make: *** [install] Error 1 > > -- > Chris Bruner > > _______________________________________________ > Ros-release mailing list > Ros-release@code.ros.org > https://code.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-release