On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Bryce Hathaway <bryce@earthmine.com> wrote:
> According to an answer I got from answers.ros.org, the proper way to
> determine the 'rosws merge' target is 'roslocate info --distro=fuerte
> perception_pcl', but the information is bogus. The closest tag is an
> unstable 1.2.3 version, but that doesn't build on my Ubuntu 12.04,
> fuerte 1.8.9 from source system. When I do try to build the unstable
> version, I get bizzare compile errors relating to 'ros::message_traits
> missing value' and other template barf looking errors. Using the last
> stable release, 1.0.3 is inappropriate for fuerte because it relies on
> now deprecated stacks (Eigen in particular).
>
> A little more context.. My goal is actually really simple to state:
> Build the velodyne stack from source for fuerte.
>
> Here's the compiler error that I get attempting to compile perception_pcl:
>
> /opt/ros/fuerte/include/message_filters/sync_policies/approximate_time.h:552:5:
> error: ‘value’ is not a member of
> ‘ros::message_traits::TimeStamp<pcl::PointIndices, void>’
>
> My goal is actually really quite simple: Build the velodyne stack from
> source for fuerte.

Building the ROS version of PCL for Fuerte from source is particularly
difficult.

Your question is really not on-topic for this list. Would you please
post a link to the answers.ros.org page for your question?
-- 
 joq