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You can access the environment variable ROS_DISTRO directly in CMake:

$ENV{ROS_DISTRO}

Regarding the greater check: your approach makes assumptions about future releases which might not be true. Therefore I would suggest a more defensive approach comparing the distro name against a list of known names and inverting the logic.

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