Huan-
    Just use the normal version of rosinstall, the "new" version isn't out,
because it's not ready. If you look in the "new" version, the "overlay"
option is ignored. This is probably causing the ROS_ROOT to fail.

I've ticketed this here:
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/2891

Kevin

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Huan Liu <liuhuanjim013@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear fellow ROS users,
>
> When I try to use rosinstall to check out code with an overlay file,
> rosinstall complains about No ROS_ROOT defined, while the environment
> variable has been properly set up.
>
> I am looking at the following tutorial:
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosinstall/NewVersion
>
> I suspect that I haven't added the rosinstall layout to the directory
> where I check out the code. However, when I try to add a rosinstall
> layout, it complains about maximum recursion depth exceeded.
>
> I'm running ROS 1.1.14. Thanks for your help!
>
> Huan
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