[ros-users] stack manifest.xml dependencies

[Jack O'Quin]

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 8:51 AM, Jack O'Quin <jack.oquin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It does static analysis of the file and fails on any issues that it finds, e.g.:
>
>  * missing package
>  * missing node
>  * missing depends
>  * other config errors

Good to know. I'll have to use it more often.
-- 
 joq