urdfdom and urdfdom_header not found when building from source on OSX

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Original report (archived issue) by Claire Wang (Bitbucket: Claire Wang).

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Description

[Description of the issue]
After installing urdfdom package with brew, cmake is still unable to find it during the build process.

Steps to Reproduce

1. [First Step] brew install urdfdom
2. [Second Step] colcon build --merge-install
3. [and so on...]

Expected behavior:

[What you expect to happen]
Builds sdformat9 successfully

Actual behavior:

[What actually happens]

/Users/clairewang/citadel_ws/src/sdformat/src/parser_urdf.cc:30:10: fatal error: 'urdf_model/model.h' file not found

#include <urdf_model/model.h>^~~~~~~~1 error generated.make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/sdformat9.dir/parser_urdf.cc.o] Error 1make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/sdformat9.dir/all] Error 2make: *** [all] Error 2make: INTERNAL: Exiting with 14 jobserver tokens available; should be 12!

Failed <<< sdformat9 [ Exited with code 2 ]

Reproduces how often:

[What percentage of the time does it occur?]
All the time when I build from source

Versions

[Include information about relevant software versions, and your OS type and version.]

OS: Mojave (10.14)
Ignition: Citadel
Xcode: 10.3

Additional Information

[Any additional information, configuration or data that might be necessary to reproduce the issue.]

The current workaround is to use colcon build --cmake-args -DUSE_INTERNAL_URDF=ON --merge-install, but it would be nice to build with the system one.

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[scpeters-test]

Original comment by Claire Wang (Bitbucket: Claire Wang).

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• Edited issue description

[scpeters-test]

Original comment by Claire Wang (Bitbucket: Claire Wang).

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• Edited issue description

[scpeters-test]

Original comment by Claire Wang (Bitbucket: Claire Wang).

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• Edited issue description