[ros-users] ROS Electric Support for OS X Lion

Sun Aug 14 23:31:53 UTC 2011

Well, so far no, but looking ahead I think I need it for proper numpy,
matplotlib, scipy, and iPython support:
http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2011/installing-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-and-ipython-on-lion/

If it turns out this was only necessary these days then I will roll back to
the built-in python.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
William Woodall
Graduate Software Engineering
Auburn University
w at auburn.edu
wjwwood at gmail.com
williamjwoodall.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com> wrote:

> Thanks for looking into this.
>
> On a separate issue, what is the reason for the brew install of
> Python?  Is there some issue with the default Apple install?
>
> thanks,
>  - Ken
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:09 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Looks like the way brew is linking it or using libtool causes the
> > libgtest.la file to never be created, because installing manually from
> > source works for me.  I filed a ticket on Homebrew's github
> > here: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/issues/7009
> > In the mean time I have created a sourcedep for it and when it is fixed
> by
> > homebrew I will switch to using that again.  The latest patches should
> work.
> > Also as a side note for others, I find it useful to make a copy of ~/ros
> > before the patching step (something like cp -r ~/ros ~/clean_ros) so I
> can
> > test new patches without downloading a new ros each time.  I use this:
> `rm
> > -rf ~/ros; cp -r ~/clean_ros ~/ros` to "reset" my ros.
> > Let me know if that works,
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > William Woodall
> > Graduate Software Engineering
> > Auburn University
> > w at auburn.edu
> > wjwwood at gmail.com
> > williamjwoodall.com
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:57 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I had not tested them, but I can confirm that doesn't work for me
> either.
> >>  I have had weird stuff happen to me on OS X with gtest before, this is
> >> something we'll have to investigate.
> >> Thanks,
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >> William Woodall
> >> Graduate Software Engineering
> >> Auburn University
> >> w at auburn.edu
> >> wjwwood at gmail.com
> >> williamjwoodall.com
> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ken Conley <kwc at willowgarage.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for putting this together.
> >>>
> >>> On your setup, are the tests working?  I'm having trouble getting
> >>> rosbuild to work with the gtest provided by brew.  I've seen this same
> >>> error on two different OS X machines (Lion, Snow Leopard), though I
> >>> haven't reset things to go through your instructions step by step:
> >>>
> >>> (output snippet, e.g. 'roscd test_roslib; make test')
> >>>
> >>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/lib/libgtest.la
> >>> -D_THREAD_SAFE', needed by `../test_package'.
> >>> make[4]: Target `CMakeFiles/test_package.dir/build' not remade because
> >>> of errors.
> >>> make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/test_package.dir/all] Error 2
> >>> [  0%] Built target clean-test-results
> >>> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/lib/libgtest.la
> >>> -D_THREAD_SAFE', needed by `../test/utest'.
> >>> make[4]: Target `CMakeFiles/test/utest.dir/build' not remade because of
> >>> errors.
> >>> make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/test/utest.dir/all] Error 2
> >>> make[3]: Target `CMakeFiles/test.dir/all' not remade because of errors.
> >>> make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/test.dir/rule] Error 2
> >>> make[2]: Target `test' not remade because of errors.
> >>> make[1]: *** [test] Error 2
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:48 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Hi everyone, I just wanted to let everyone know that we (my
> colleagues
> >>> > and
> >>> > I) have started an effort to document and fix any issues related
> >>> > installing
> >>> > ROS Electric Emys on OS X 10.7 Lion using Homebrew instead of
> Macports.
> >>> >  We
> >>> > are creating documentation and patches as we go in our github.com
> >>> > repository
> >>> > located here:
> >>> >
> >>> > Instructions:
> https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/blob/master/electric-lion-homebrew/README.md
> >>> > Repository: https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx
> >>> > The instructions linked above walk through setting up ROS Electric on
> a
> >>> > clean Lion install using the Homebrew
> >>> > (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/)
> >>> > package management system.  I would encourage anyone who is
> interested
> >>> > to
> >>> > give it a try and report any problems you run into either on this
> >>> > mailing
> >>> > list or as an issue on the github
> >>> > site: https://github.com/wjwwood/ros-osx/issues.  We would also
> welcome
> >>> > any
> >>> > help in the form of resolving issues, documentation, and patches.
> >>> > Currently, the ros, ros_comm, common_msgs, and geometry stacks are
> >>> > known to
> >>> > work.  This includes some pretty commonly used packages like most of
> >>> > the
> >>> > command line tools and tf.  We will be continuously updating this
> >>> > repository
> >>> > so keep an eye on it if you are looking for something specific.
> >>> > Thanks,
> >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> > William Woodall
> >>> > Graduate Software Engineering
> >>> > Auburn University
> >>> > w at auburn.edu
> >>> > wjwwood at gmail.com
> >>> > williamjwoodall.com
> >>> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >>> >
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