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To make ROS surely building against your own version and not the version that comes with ROS you can use in your ROS-package's CMakeLists.txt

  find_package( OpenCV 2.4.9 EXACT REQUIRED )

2.4.9 is than your manually compiled version, which must then differ from the version that comes with ROS

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