[ros-users] stack manifest.xml dependencies

Jack O'Quin jack.oquin at gmail.com
Wed Dec 29 16:51:34 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> Pretty much.  As a quicker test, r-grepping for a package name in the
> source is usually a good sniff test.  Also keep in mind that roslaunch
> files create implicit dependencies, so 'make' is often not a
> sufficient test -- though the fastidious can use the
> rosbuild_add_roslaunch_check() macro:
>
> http://www.ros.org/wiki/rosbuild/CMakeLists#rosbuild_add_roslaunch_check

Does that actually check the dependencies? I thought it just did a parse check.

Don't forget another useful tool, that lists any missing dependencies
generated by a set of launch files:

 $ roslaunch-deps -w file.launch

 http://www.ros.org/wiki/roslaunch/Commandline%20Tools#roslaunch-deps
-- 
 joq



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