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roscd pointing to wrong location

asked 2013-01-17 07:43:28 -0500

vhwanger gravatar image

updated 2013-01-18 04:14:28 -0500

KruseT gravatar image

Edit: Ah hah, this turned out to be a package problem, not a rospack problem. Sorry!

I have a package in an overlay. This same package exists in the /opt stacks. My ROS_PACKAGE_PATH has the overlay before the /opt stacks.

/home/vchwang/ros_workspace/sandbox:/opt/ros/electric/stacks:/opt/ros/electric/ros

However, roscd still points to the one in /opt. As a result, rosmake refuses to build the package in my overlay. How do I change this?

Some more info:

Even after running rospack profile, my rospack_cache claims the package sbpl is in /opt/ros/electric/stacks/arm_navigation/sbpl. If I go into ~/ros_workspace/sandbox/sbpl and rosmake, I get:

[ rosmake ] No package selected and the current directory is not the correct path for package 'sbpl'.

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Please try to provide enough information for us to reproduce your error. http://www.ros.org/wiki/Support You're saying it's doing the wrong thing, and people are guessing in the dark.

tfoote gravatar image tfoote  ( 2013-01-17 18:26:50 -0500 )edit

if you solved the problem, answer yourself and close the question.

KruseT gravatar image KruseT  ( 2013-01-18 04:38:47 -0500 )edit

Can you post the whole rosmake message include the shell prompt?

sam gravatar image sam  ( 2013-01-19 10:18:51 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-01-18 05:01:20 -0500

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Turns out I was getting the wrong version of the package, which did not contain a manifest file.

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answered 2013-01-17 14:16:02 -0500

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updated 2013-01-17 14:17:48 -0500

You can try:

  rospack profile

Everytime I met such like roscd problems, I can solve it by this command.

But I'm not understand why rosmake refuce to make. What's that message?

Hope this helps you~

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answered 2013-01-17 07:57:30 -0500

Try opening up ~/.ros/rospack_cache in a text editor and removing the entry for the package. If that doesn't work, could you post the output of echo $ROS_PACKAGE_PATH?

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That didn't work - the file would just automatically add back in the directory. My package path: /home/vchwang/ros_workspace/sandbox:/opt/ros/electric/stacks:/opt/ros/electric/ros (where the package I want is in the sandbox).

vhwanger gravatar image vhwanger  ( 2013-01-17 09:43:58 -0500 )edit
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answered 2013-01-17 12:17:49 -0500

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Make sure the overlayed package has exactly the same name as the one in opt (pay attention to '-' vs. '_'). It sounds like there could be a typo in the package name.

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