Bug 566184

Summary:	dev-ros/rospack: rospack export doesn't work
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Victor Mataré <vmatare+gbug>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Robot Operating System team <ros>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Victor Mataré 2015-11-19 08:34:16 UTC

rospack export is supposed to output compiler flags for a certain ROS component, similar to pkgconfig, like this:

# rospack export --lang=cpp --attrib=lflags roscpp
-L/opt/ros/fuerte/lib -lroscpp -lrostime -lrosconsole -lroscpp_serialization -lxmlrpcpp

This is how it works e.g. on fedora. The rospack installed via the Gentoo ebuild however just outputs an empty string.

Comment 1 Alexis Ballier gentoo-dev

2015-11-19 10:24:11 UTC

fuerte is very old; with recent ros versions, catkin is supposed to handle this

see the old manifest.xml spec:

http://docs.ros.org/independent/api/rospkg/html/manifest_xml.html#export


vs the new one:
http://wiki.ros.org/Manifest

and:
http://www.ros.org/reps/rep-0127.html#modification-to-previous-specifications

stating: 'The cpp tag has been dropped, it is handled by catkin.'