[ros-users] ROS Fuerte Beta 1 Now Available

[Tully Foote]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Traveler Hauptman
<traveler.hauptman at iit.it>wrote:

> Ok, I think I got it. The ROS variant of PCL really needs to be a "ros
> package"; it can't just be a "distro package" compiled with the correct
> flags and patches.
>
> So if I add the wg-debs pcl & swig-wx repos to
> ~/ros-underlay/.rosinstall when I build the core libraries will it work?
>

They do not use catkin as their build system so they can't go in the same
workspace as the rest of the packages.  But if you download and install
into /opt/ros/fuerte the patched versions from the wg-debs repos for pcl
and swig-wx that should work.

Tully


>
> On 4/04/2012 11:06 p.m., Ken Conley wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Traveler Hauptman
> > <traveler.hauptman at iit.it> wrote:
> >> Just to double check...
> >>
> >> After tweaking things in the rosdep *.yaml files I was able to do:
> >>
> >> rosdep check -a
> >>
> >> and get a perfect result.... all dependencies satisfied, etc....
> >>
> >> However, when I subsequently ran:
> >>
> >> rosmake -a
> >>
> >> Some packages failed to build because of the rospack error in the quotes
> >> below (xxx depends on non-existant package pcl).
> >>
> >> To me it seems like rospack is *not* using the same dependency mechanism
> >> as rosdep...
> >>
> >> so how do I get rospack to recognize that a package is installed? For
> >> instance, does the pcl_ros package need to be installed in
> >> /opt/ros/fuerte or ... ???
> > Per my previous comments, ROS uses a different PCL.  This different
> > PCL contains a manifest.xml file which is what rospack is looking for.
> >
> > And yes, rosdep/rospack have very different dependency mechanisms.
> > rosdep manages a variety of OS-specific package managers, which is
> > what its dependencies are keyed against.  rospack only tests for ROS
> > package dependencies, i.e. things that have manifest.xml files.
> >
> >  - Ken
> >
> >>
> >> On 4/04/2012 6:43 p.m., Ken Conley wrote:
> >>>>> 4. rosmake appears to happily build the things that don't depend on
> pcl. I
> >>>>> get a compiler error for pcl_ros and for a bunch of things I get a
> >>>>> dependency error like:
> >>> Same as above
> >>>
> >>>>> [rosbuild] Building package depth_image_proc
> >>>>>  Failed to invoke /opt/ros/fuerte/bin/rospack deps-manifests
> >>>>> depth_image_proc
> >>>>>  [rospack] Error: package/stack depth_image_proc depends on
> non-existent
> >>>>> package pcl
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Ideas on how I should proceed? I'd love to get a clean archlinux
> install
> >>>>> sorted before fuerte leaves beta...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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Tully Foote
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Willow Garage, Inc.
tfoote at willowgarage.com
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