On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda <leo@alaxarxa.net> wrote:

Hi,

First of all I have noticed that there are several packages that has a
dependency a pcl package, when there's no pcl package, but there's a system
dependency pcl. So, I have to change several manifest files from

<depend package="pcl" />

to
<rosdep name="pcl" />

Also, I have not be able to found which version of pcl is needed for fuerte
(1.5, 1.6) With 1.6 it doesn't compile.

We had a lot of fun trying to figure this out in Fedora[1] as well. As it turns out, you can't use the upstream PCL release for Fuerte, you need a custom branch of PCL hosted on github[2] which contains extra message definitions and stack metadata. I raised the issue upstream[3] and it looks like we have to wait for PCL 2.0 for ROS to build against PCL as a stand-alone library instead of requiring that PCL be modified. We're going to try to patch Fedora's system PCL to make it a hybrid ROS stack and stand-alone library so that ROS is usable until this situation is resolved. It seems this issue is pretty[4] common[5].

Rich

[1] http://answers.ros.org/question/34693/trying-to-compile-perception_pcl-122-for-fuerte/
[2] https://github.com/wg-debs/pcl/tree/debian/ros-fuerte-pcl_1.5.2_precise
[3] http://dev.pointclouds.org/issues/699
[4] http://answers.ros.org/question/43129/pcl_ros-build-error-in-fuerte-on-fedora-17-x64/
[5] http://answers.ros.org/question/38193/cant-build-fuerte-in-fedora-fails-on-rosdep/