[ros-users] running ROS unit tests -- error running PCL unit test suite?

[Michael Styer]

Hello,

I'm working on learning the unit testing procedure used in ROS. So, if I
understand correctly, running the tests for a particular package
(assuming it has tests) just means

roscd <package_name>
make test

First of all, is that the right way to do it? Or is there a rosmake
invocation I should use?

Then, that works in my installation for most packages, but for PCL I get
a strange compilation error:

[ 68%] Building CXX object test/CMakeFiles/test_io.dir/test_io.o
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/test/test_io.cpp:272: error: redefinition of ‘struct REGISTERED_POINT_TYPE_MUST_BE_PLAIN_OLD_DATA272’
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/include/pcl/point_types.h:270: error: previous definition of ‘struct REGISTERED_POINT_TYPE_MUST_BE_PLAIN_OLD_DATA272’
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/test/test_io.cpp:270: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘;’ token
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/test/test_io.cpp:270: error: conflicting declaration ‘typedef int mpl_assert_arg272’
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/include/pcl/point_types.h:272: error: ‘mpl_assert_arg272’ has a previous declaration as ‘typedef struct REGISTERED_POINT_TYPE_MUST_BE_PLAIN_OLD_DATA272 mpl_assert_arg272’
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/test/test_io.cpp:270: error: conflicting declaration ‘mpl_assertion_in_line_272’
/home/stm1pal/ros/stacks/point_cloud_perception/pcl/include/pcl/point_types.h:270: error: ‘mpl_assertion_in_line_272’ has a previous declaration as ‘<anonymous enum> mpl_assertion_in_line_272’
make[4]: *** [test/CMakeFiles/test_io.dir/test_io.o] Error 1
make[4]: Target `test/CMakeFiles/test_io.dir/build' not remade because
of errors.

I'll keep looking into it, but does anyone know what might be causing
that? For reference I'm pulling pcl from 

https://code.ros.org/svn/ros-pkg/stacks/point_cloud_perception/trunk/pcl

I have the latest revision (31739). Also let me know if that's not the
right repo.

Thanks!

Mike