Let's wait for core people to answer but, as the person who fixed it for
catkin, I believe there is no other way but have rosmake add a target for
gtest (that will then be built before bulding the tests). it seems easy, I
just don't know the internals of rosmake.

The ugly hack is not portable and the decision Ubuntu/Debian made was the
right one (cf
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/FAQ#Why_is_it_not_recommended_to_install_a_pre-compiled_copy_of_Goog).
They just need to update their CMake :)


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Wim Meeussen <wim@hidof.com> wrote:

> I tried one of the (ugly) workarounds from the comments above:
>
> cd /usr/src/gtest
> sudo cmake CMakeLists.txt
> sudo make
> sudo cp *.a /usr/lib
>
> This creates a static library /usr/lib/libgtest.a, but linking fails:
>
> Linking CXX executable ../bin/test_unique_id
>   /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -l/usr/lib/libgtest.a
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Vincent Rabaud <vrabaud@willowgarage.com>wrote:
>
>> Please have a look at :
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtest/+changelog
>> (especially the change for 1.6.0-1ubuntu2)
>> This is a known issue on Ubuntu:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cmake/+bug/969891
>> Catkin solves this problem as follows:
>>  https://github.com/ros/catkin/blob/master/cmake/test/gtest.cmake
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Wim Meeussen <wim@hidof.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> The libgtest-dev package did get installed. Here is the full console
>>>> output:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://build.willowgarage.com/job/prerelease_groovy_unique_identifier_precise_amd64/1/console
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> There's more going on. I added the libgtest-dev package, but the library
>>> is still not found. Looking at the Ubuntu package, the library is not part
>>> of libgtest-dev <
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/amd64/libgtest-dev/filelist>. The
>>> only Ubuntu package containing the libgtest.so is ugene <
>>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?searchon=contents&keywords=libgtest.so&mode=exactfilename&suite=precise&arch=any>,
>>> which is not really what we're looking for.  So that leaves the question,
>>> where did we get install libgtest.so from in the past?
>>>
>>> Wim
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
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