here is it :
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/ticket/3329
there is a patch in case you need it.

on my computer I have liblog4cxx10-dev in ros_comm/rosdep.yml (with
Diamonback), and it has been corrected here :
https://code.ros.org/trac/ros/changeset/13134

I am surprised you were annoyed by this;

2011/2/15 Willy Lambert <lambert.willy@gmail.com>

> I agree with boost,
> I don't know what is stated for log4cxx but what you suggest seems correct.
> I'll post a patch for it tonight
>
> 2011/2/15 Taylor Veltrop <taylor@veltrop.com>
>
> Correction, it was initially linked to gcc 4.4.
>>
>> Also, the Debian Squeeze dependencies for boost and log4cxx should be set
>> to libboost1.42-all-dev liblog4cxx10-dev
>>
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 8:36 PM, Taylor Veltrop wrote:
>>
>> After upgrading to Debian 6.0 the rosinstall script works fine.
>>
>> The new problem is that nothing would compile: "gcc fails to compile
>> simple program"
>>
>> gcc was linked to gcc-4.3 so I had to do a rm /usr/bin/gcc and ln -s
>> /usr/bin/gcc-4.3 /usr/bin/gcc
>> Is there a more correct way of doing this?
>>
>> Now things seem to be moving along.
>>
>> This happened with both cturtle and diamondback by the way.
>>
>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 12:57 AM, Willy Lambert wrote:
>>
>> Debian installation is quite new and might not work on every installation
>> (that's why there is a WORK IN PROGRESS on top of it ;) ). Please do not
>> hesitate to share your problem here, you'll receive help and you'll help
>> Debian becoming a fully working installation.
>>
>> Yes Squeeze is officially a stable version for a week, so now, lenny may
>> be (IMO) considered as an "old install".
>>
>> If you dare, I suggest you to try the next coming version of ROS because
>> dependencies are better managed. It is currently in a release candidate
>> state, so it's close to be the new newest version.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2011/2/14 Taylor Veltrop <taylor@veltrop.com>
>>
>>> Ok, looks like I'll have to do a dist upgrade.
>>>
>>> Wow, I didn't know that squeeze was officially released!
>>>
>>> Thanks for the heads up Ugo!
>>>
>>> On Feb 14, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Ugo Cupcic wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Yes on lenny you get python 2.5 and for this you need python 2.6 at
>>> least.
>>>
>>> Installing ros on lenny was a bit of a pain (well in our case). If you
>>> uprgade to the latest debian, then it should make your life a LOT easier
>>> with ROS :)
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Ugo
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Taylor Veltrop <taylor@veltrop.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Embarrassed to say that I can't get the newest rosinstall working on my
>>>> machine, using Debian lenny 5.0.8 and the standard source based install
>>>> instructions at http://www.ros.org/wiki/cturtle/Installation/Debian.
>>>>  Python version is 2.5.2.
>>>>
>>>> Executed:
>>>> sudo apt-get install build-essential python-yaml cmake subversion wget
>>>> python-setuptools
>>>> and:
>>>> sudo easy_install -U rosinstall
>>>>
>>>> When I run:
>>>> rosinstall ~/ros "
>>>> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=base&overlay=no
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>> Here is the output:
>>>> veltrobot:~ $ rosinstall ~/ros "
>>>> http://packages.ros.org/cgi-bin/gen_rosinstall.py?rosdistro=cturtle&variant=ros_only&overlay=no
>>>> "
>>>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py:49:
>>>> Warning: 'with' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 5, in <module>
>>>>     pkg_resources.run_script('rosinstall==0.5.15', 'rosinstall')
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 448, in
>>>> run_script
>>>>     self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
>>>>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1173,
>>>> in run_script
>>>>     exec script_code in namespace, namespace
>>>>   File "/usr/bin/rosinstall", line 28, in <module>
>>>>
>>>>   File
>>>> "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rosinstall-0.5.15-py2.5.egg/rosinstall/vcs/svn.py",
>>>> line 49
>>>>     with open(os.devnull, 'w') as fnull:
>>>>             ^
>>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax
>>>>
>>>> If I download the old http://www.ros.org/rosinstall and do a
>>>> ./rosinstall ~/ros "
>>>> http://www.ros.org/rosinstalls/cturtle_base.rosinstall"
>>>> then it all works out fine as it used to.
>>>>
>>>> I found an old thread with the same error message from an ArchLinux
>>>> user.  They fixed it by changing a python 3 symlink to a 2.7 symlink.  That
>>>> does not apply in my case.
>>>>
>>>> Sorry if this has been covered before, I feel like it's something
>>>> obvious but I haven't been able to find a solution.
>>>>
>>>> Is Debian lenny's python the problem?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Taylor Veltrop
>>>>
>>>>
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