Does we always have to first build catkin_workspace and then only build the catkin_package present in the src of catkin_workspace?

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Hi, I was reading ROS tutorials page on creating and building package in which I came across how to build the ROS packages. In the page it is shown that first the author has build the catkin workspace using catkin_make command and then he/her has build the beginner_tutorials package present in the src directory of the catkin_ws using the same command. So I want to know that whether we always I have to follow the above mention steps or we can directly build the catkin packages as shown in the tutorials inside the catkin_ws.

Links:- http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/CreatingPackage http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/BuildingPackages

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Originally posted by a443 on ROS Answers with karma: 19 on 2017-02-16

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Answer 1

Everytime you need to build your packages, only thing you need to do is to run catkin_make in root of your catkin workspace. That's it.

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Originally posted by Akif with karma: 3561 on 2017-02-16

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