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Hi all,
I am currently using ROS in conjunction with Genom. However, Genom doesn't have an equivalent to roscd. I would like to know if there is a way to use roscd to fastly go into Genom module folders.
Guido
Hi,
Just add a magical fake manifest.xml file to your folder. And be sure to put the name of your folder in the manifest at the right places (refere to an example manifest to see where the package name must appear).
Guido
You don't need any arcane magic such as artificial manifests. They set up an environment variable for that which you can set in your setup.sh. See the ros wiki for environment variables, and in particular ROS_LOCATIONS for more details. e.g. in setup.sh:
export ROS_LOCATIONS="motors=/opt/diamondback/ycs/ycs_devices/motors"
After making sure the variable is set in my shell:
> snorri@snorriheim:/opt/diamondback$ roscd motors
> snorri@snorriheim:/opt/diamondback/ycs/ycs_devices/motors$ ls
actuator goo goo_firmware qgoo
Those listed by ls are actual ros packages, but it works equally as well on any directory outside your ros tree.
Asked: 2011-05-23 23:04:42 -0500
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Last updated: May 24 '11
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