Closed meyerj closed 10 years ago
Blah. Yeah, this might be an acceptable solution. It definitely seems easier than having to go through the process of changing genmsg.
I guess it's not a bug. There have been huge efforts to ban every occurence of absolute paths from the install-space in order to make it relocatable: https://github.com/ros/catkin/issues/490.
I guess it's not a bug. There have been huge efforts to ban every occurence of absolute paths from the install-space in order to make it relocatable: ros/catkin#490.
Yeah, that's what it seems like. At least this shouldn't be too hard to fix. Meanwhile, did you have a chance to look at #5 ?
ros/genmsg#32 has broken typekit generation as
${${package}_MESSAGE_FILES}
variable contains relative paths now. The current Ubuntu repositories serve genmsg 0.4.22 including that patch since today.We have to check if this can be considered a bug in genmsg or if there is a simple way to get the absolute path in a generic way.
Possible solution (not tested yet):