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

Mon Aug 15 01:24:37 UTC 2011

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Woodall <wjwwood at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I've installed numpy both from source and pip with the vanilla Apple
Python 2.6 and had the same result: successful install, though two of
the 100+ unit tests fail.  I didn't really bother looking into the
nature of the failing tests, but I didn't see anything that would
indicate that Python 2.6 was at issue.

 - Ken

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> William Woodall
> Graduate Software Engineering
> Auburn University
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> williamjwoodall.com
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> 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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