Ros-kinetic error: pcl_ros cannot find openmpi

Question

I found this problem building the ros packages for my project. I am running ros-kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04:

-- +++ processing catkin package: 'ros_sourcesink'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(ros_sourcesink)
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
-- Warning: ros_sourcesink_clothoid_lane_ros_marker_sink -- not building library, missing [icl_traffic_maps_utilities].
-- Warning: ros_sourcesink_chm_values_ros_marker_sink -- not building library, missing [icl_traffic_maps_gtsam_utilities].
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'ros_automated_driving'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(ros_automated_driving)
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
CMake Error at /opt/ros/kinetic/share/pcl_ros/cmake/pcl_rosConfig.cmake:106 (message):
  Project 'pcl_ros' specifies '/usr/include/hdf5/openmpi' as an include dir,
  which is not found.  It does neither exist as an absolute directory nor in
  '/opt/ros/kinetic//usr/include/hdf5/openmpi'.  Ask the maintainer 'Paul
  Bovbel <[email protected]>, Bill Morris <[email protected]>' to fix it.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/kinetic/share/catkin/cmake/catkinConfig.cmake:76 (find_package)
  ros_automated_driving/CMakeLists.txt:9 (find_package)

Thanks for your help!

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Originally posted by ignacioalvmar on ROS Answers with karma: 31 on 2016-12-14

Post score: 2

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Original comments

Comment by Felix Messmer on 2020-12-01:
although this question is quite old, the problem just recently popped up again:
https://github.com/ros-planning/navigation/issues/1058

any ideas how to properly solve this?

Answer 1

This looks like a PCL include. I've verified on a clean install that if you apt-get install ros-kinetic-pcl-ros from debians, or run rosdep install to pull in dependencies on a source workspace containing pcl_ros, the path will exist on your system.

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Originally posted by paulbovbel with karma: 4518 on 2016-12-15

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Answer 2

I fixed it installing the library. Thought ros would install it already. sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev

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Originally posted by ignacioalvmar with karma: 31 on 2016-12-14

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Original comments

Comment by gvdhoorn on 2016-12-15:
Are you building things from sources? If you are, you are responsible for installing dependences (using rosdep). If you aren't this would be something to report over at the pcl_ros issue tracker.

Comment by bugfighter on 2017-11-29:
I was facing the same issue running ros-kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04, even after purge of ros-kinetic-pcl-ros, libpcl-dev and then rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src --rosdistro kinetic -y

this issue only got resolved after sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev