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First: please make sure you actually need to build it from sources.

mavros (and related packages) have been released for Indigo, Kinetic, Lunar and Melodic.

If you just want to use the packages, use sudo apt install ros-kinetic-mavros instead of building from source.

As to the error message: if you're following the source build installation instructions it actually tells you to use catkin build, not catkin_make.

catkin_make cannot build workspaces with non-Catkin packages in it. catkin_tools can.

First: please make sure you actually need to build it from sources.

mavros (and related packages) have been released for Indigo, Kinetic, Lunar and Melodic.Melodic. See wiki/mavros.

If you just want to use the packages, use sudo apt install ros-kinetic-mavros instead of building from source.

As to the error message: if you're following the source build installation instructions it actually tells you to use catkin build, not catkin_make.

catkin_make cannot build workspaces with non-Catkin packages in it. catkin_tools can.