> In the meantime, your best bet is to make the paths on the build and
> host systems identical (you could use chroot on the build system to
> make this easier).

I had this same problem, and i can confirm that the above suggestion is the
right way to go about it.
I successfully got Ros working on the gumstix.



On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Daniel Maier <
maierd@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 06:32:08 +0200, Brian Gerkey <gerkey@willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Cross-compiling is not well-exercised or supported in ROS at the
> > moment, and you've come across one of the frailties of the current
> > state of affairs.  A common approach when cross-compiling is to
> > statically link executables, to avoid even copying the object files to
> > the embeddd system, much less finding them at run time.  But I'm
> > pretty sure that the ROS build system won't properly link static
> > executables at the moment.
> >
> > What you really want is to be able to *install* your ROS system after
> > building it.  The install step is on the roadmap for the ROS 1.1.x
> > series; I'll keep the cross-compilation use-case in mind when
> > designing it.
> >
> > In the meantime, your best bet is to make the paths on the build and
> > host systems identical (you could use chroot on the build system to
> > make this easier).
> >
> >       brian.
> >
>
> Ok, will do it that way. Thanks Brian!
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