Rosws error trying to overlay common_msgs

Question

Hi,

i just tried to setup my Fuerte workspace using rosws. This also includes an overlay of common_msgs and one package that depends on common_msgs. When I add the common_msgs stack to my workspace using "rosws merge" and try to build the package that depends on geometry_msgs, i get the following error when trying to rosmake:

[rosbuild] Building package morsetesting
  [rosbuild] Cached build flags older than manifests; calling rospack to get flags
  Failed to invoke /opt/ros/fuerte/bin/rospack cflags-only-I;--deps-only morsetesting
  Package geometry_msgs was not found in the pkg-config search path.
  Perhaps you should add the directory containing `geometry_msgs.pc'
  to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
  No package 'geometry_msgs' found

After removing the overlay of common_msgs (using "rosws remove"), i can build the package again... Is this a bug or am i missing something here?

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Originally posted by michikarg on ROS Answers with karma: 2108 on 2012-05-06

Post score: 0

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Original comments

Comment by michikarg on 2012-05-06:
I should mention that for my project, an overlay of common_msgs does not make sense any more since the python code is now stored outside of the rospackage anyway, but still i´m interested in an answer...

Answer 1

The common_msgs stack builds using catkin, not rosmake, now.

If you need to build it from source as an overlay, you will have to use the new tools.

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Originally posted by joq with karma: 25443 on 2012-05-06

This answer was ACCEPTED on the original site

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by michikarg on 2012-05-06:
Tanks. So i cannot mix packages that are build by catkin with packages built by rosmake... Would you recommend to replace rosmake-builds completely by catkin?

Comment by joq on 2012-05-06:
Not yet. Catkin building is not yet fully documented. I believe you can build and install something using catkin, then refer to the new version in other packages.