[Ros-release] Fuete release install error

[Ken Conley]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> wrote:
> On 4/26/2012 1:59 PM, Ken Conley wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Chris Bruner<cbruner at quadro.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Two errors, the first trivial.
>>> In the Gentoo install wiki
>>> http://www.ros.org/wiki/fuerte/Installation/Gentoo
>>> It says to "make install" should be "sudo make install"
>>
>> Please feel free to edit the Gentoo wiki page.  That page is
>> maintained by the ROS Gentoo Community, of which you are a part.
>
> done
>
>>> The second error is more difficult.
>>> When actually doing the install, it does part of it, but then fails at
>>> catlin
>>> This is the actual end of the install attempt. It was made with
>>>
>>> cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/ros/fuerte
>>> -DSETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT=OFF
>>>
>>>  notice that the error line contains deb stuff.
>>
>> This looks like some issue with SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT not being
>> processed.  You may want to try with a clean and fully up-to-date tree
>> just to make sure the wrong setting wasn't there.  The underlying
>> CMake variable that appears to be getting the wrong value is
>> SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA, which should be set to empty.
>>
>>  - Ken
>>
>
>  ~/ros-underlay $ grep SETUPTOOLS * -r
> build/CMakeCache.txt:SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA:STRING=
> build/CMakeCache.txt:SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT:BOOL=OFF
> catkin/cmake/python.cmake:option(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT "ON for debian style
> python packages layout" ON)
> catkin/cmake/python.cmake:  set(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT OFF)
> catkin/cmake/python.cmake:if(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT)
> catkin/cmake/python.cmake:  set(SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA "--install-layout=deb"
> CACHE STRING "extra arguments to setuptools")
> catkin/cmake/python.cmake:  set(SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA "" CACHE STRING "extra
> arguments to setuptools")
> catkin/cmake/templates/python_distutils_install.sh.in:
>  @SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA@ --prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
> catkin/build/CMakeCache.txt:SETUPTOOLS_ARG_EXTRA:STRING=
> catkin/build/CMakeCache.txt:SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT:BOOL=OFF
>
> which looks like the ptyhon.cmake option didn't get the news.  Any idea of
> how to correct it?

You can always hack out the call the bad --install-layout flags, but
it sounds like something weird is going on because the values in the
CMakeCache look correct.

 - Ken

>
> --
> Chris Bruner
>