Make it easier to do source builds of gazebo / drcsim

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Original report (archived issue) by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

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In addition to simulator and simulator-prerelease, I would propose a configuration called simulator-sourcebuild. Several of us are currently doing this manually; here are the steps I follow after I ssh in to a launched simulator machine:

Desired parameters:

• GAZEBO_BRANCH (eg. default, gazebo_1.5)
• GAZEBO_CMAKE_OPTIONS (eg. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)
• DRCSIM_BRANCH (eg. default, drcsim_2.1)
• DRCSIM_CMAKE_OPTIONS (eg. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release)

  sudo apt-get install -y mercurial libprotoc-dev libtar-dev libbullet-dev
  # Gazebo
  hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/gazebo -u  ${GAZEBO_BRANCH}
  cd gazebo
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake .. -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/ros/fuerte ${GAZEBO_CMAKE_OPTIONS}
  make -j 4
  sudo make install
  # Drcsim
  hg clone https://bitbucket.org/osrf/drcsim -u  ${DRCSIM_BRANCH}
  cd ~/drcsim
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake .. ${DRCSIM_CMAKE_OPTIONS}
  # Then need to set up .bashrc

Also, the ~/.gazebo/diagnostics directory fills up pretty fast. A trick to avoid that is:

sudo mkdir /mnt/gazebo-diagnostics
sudo chown ubuntu:ubuntu /mnt/gazebo-diagnostics
mkdir ~/.gazebo
ln -s /mnt/gazebo-diagnostics ~/.gazebo/diagnostics

[osrf-migration]

Original comment by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

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• Edited issue description

[osrf-migration]

Original comment by Steve Peters (Bitbucket: Steven Peters, GitHub: scpeters).

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We can also use some of the jenkins scripts to facilitate this.

[osrf-migration]

Original comment by Hugo Boyer (Bitbucket: hugomatic, GitHub: hugomatic).

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• changed state from "new" to "on hold"