Re: Orocos / Catkin

Hi Marcus,


On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Marcus Liebhardt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> This might be a bug related to this topic:
>
> In the ROS Hydro release of python_orocos_kdl it seems like the a CMake
> configuration file is missing. This is the error I get when trying to build
> a package depending on python_orocos_kdl:
>
> CMake Error at /opt/ros/hydro/share/catkin/cmake/catkinConfig.cmake:72
> (find_package):
>   Could not find a configuration file for package python_orocos_kdl.
>
>   Set python_orocos_kdl_DIR to the directory containing a CMake
> configuration
>   file for python_orocos_kdl.  The file will have one of the following
> names:
>
>     python_orocos_kdlConfig.cmake
>     python_orocos_kdl-config.cmake
>
>
I do not think it is related. Are you explicitly calling find_package on
python_orocos_kdl? If so, why are you doing this?


> Note that this file exists for the orocos_kdl package. I'm not sure, if
> this is a problem of the package or something went wrong while releasing it.
>
>
Nothing went wrong releasing it, we just do not have a .cmake file for
python_orocos_kdl, do you think we need one and if so, what would you use
it for?


>
> Regards,
> Marcus
>

Ruben

>
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ruben Smits <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Jonathan Bohren <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Ruben,
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>>
>>> I noticed you have some merge requests up on gitorious for Catkin
>>> integration with Orocos. What's the status of that?
>>>
>>
>> I've been able to compile the entire orocos_toolchain using
>> catkin_make_isolated. This means I converted all packages back to plain
>> cmake packages and provided a package.xml files and CMakeLists.txt for
>> packages that still need to be installed. This makes it possible to build
>> the entire toolchain with catkin_make_isolated and install it nicely.
>>
>> I've successfully used it to build the toolchain on Mac OSX and Ubuntu.
>>
>>
>>> I think Catkin is almost ready for prime-time (once they add a unified
>>> <depend> tag and catkin_simple) but I know there might be some interest in
>>> making Orocos still build in a rosbuild environmnet. Do you think rosbuild
>>> should still be supported?
>>>
>>>
>> Personally I think we can safely drop rosbuild support for hydro and
>> groovy. Especially since for catkin we only use plain cmake and add a
>> non-intrusive package.xml file.
>>
>> But the most critical question is how this will influence the workflow of
>> users. I've not yet used the converted toolchain enough in my own workflow
>> to give a good answer.
>>
>> I have no idea what other developers think of this. Let's hear them out ;)
>>
>>
>>> Thanks! I hope all is well,
>>> -j
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jonathan Bohren
>>> Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics
>>> http://dscl.lcsr.jhu.edu/People/JonathanBohren
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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>
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