I have noticed that when using rosmake if you enter anything that exits through optparse ( rosmake --help for example ) then you get an undesired traceback.  I looked at the way it is being used and I cannot figure why the traceback is being generated.  transcript:<div>

<br></div><div><div>$ rosmake --asdf</div><div>Usage: rosmake [options] [PACKAGE]...</div><div><br></div><div>rosmake: error: no such option: --asdf</div><div>Traceback (most recent call last):</div><div>  File &quot;/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosmake&quot;, line 65, in &lt;module&gt;</div>

<div>    if rma.main():</div><div>  File &quot;/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosmake/src/rosmake/rosmake.py&quot;, line 706, in main</div><div>    options, args = parser.parse_args()</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1396, in parse_args</div>

<div>    self.error(str(err))</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1578, in error</div><div>    self.exit(2, &quot;%s: error: %s\n&quot; % (self.get_prog_name(), msg))</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1568, in exit</div>

<div>    sys.exit(status)</div><div>SystemExit: 2</div></div><div><br></div><div>OR</div><div><br></div><div><div>$ rosmake --help</div><div>Usage: rosmake [options] [PACKAGE]...</div><div><br></div><div>Options:</div><div>

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit</div><div>...</div><div>  --status-rate=STATUS_UPDATE_RATE</div><div>                        How fast to update the status bar in Hz.  Default: 5Hz</div><div>Traceback (most recent call last):</div>

<div>  File &quot;/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/bin/rosmake&quot;, line 65, in &lt;module&gt;</div><div>    if rma.main():</div><div>  File &quot;/opt/ros/cturtle/ros/tools/rosmake/src/rosmake/rosmake.py&quot;, line 706, in main</div>

<div>    options, args = parser.parse_args()</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1394, in parse_args</div><div>    stop = self._process_args(largs, rargs, values)</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1434, in _process_args</div>

<div>    self._process_long_opt(rargs, values)</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1509, in _process_long_opt</div><div>    option.process(opt, value, values, self)</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 788, in process</div>

<div>    self.action, self.dest, opt, value, values, parser)</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 811, in take_action</div><div>    parser.exit()</div><div>  File &quot;/usr/lib/python2.6/optparse.py&quot;, line 1568, in exit</div>

<div>    sys.exit(status)</div><div>SystemExit: 0</div></div><div><br></div><div>The common case is that optparse.py is used to exit the script rather then letting the rosmake script finish normally.</div><div><br></div>
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My setup:</div><div>Linux sakaru 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux</div><div>Desktop running Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04</div><div>CTurtle binary 1.2.x</div><div><br></div><div>Steps to reproduce:</div>

<div>1. execute any rosmake with a passive execution, ie &#39;rosmake --help&#39; or &#39;rosmake --asdffj&#39;</div><div>2. Expect rosmake to perform normally except for a cosmetic traceback on the sys.exit(status)</div>

<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br clear="all">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>William Woodall<br>Graduate Software Engineering<br>Auburn University<br><a href="mailto:w@auburn.edu" target="_blank">w@auburn.edu</a><br>

<a href="mailto:wjwwood@gmail.com" target="_blank">wjwwood@gmail.com</a><br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>
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