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This is not intended by catkin.

It can sometimes work, but it may sometimes not work. "catkin_make xyz" means making the cmake target xyz. I believe cmake adds a target for each subfolder by default, thogh not sure what goes into that target. Also that target may be overriden e.g. by add_executable(xyz ...).

If you want a target like that, you might ask for it on github.

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