Problems compiling nodes using pcl in Ubuntu 11.10

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There seems to be an issue with compiling ROS nodes that use pcl on Ubuntu 11.10. When I try to compile my node on 10.04 I don't have any problems. Both installations were installed from the debian packages ros-electric-desktop-full and ros-electric-perception-pcl-addons.

1. Ubuntu 10.04, 32-bit, ROS Electric: Works
2. Ubuntu 11.10, 32-bit, ROS Electric: Doesn't compile

My node is pretty simple, mainly just visualizing a static point cloud that I create.

In the second case, I get the following compiler error during linking.

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Linking CXX executable ../bin/publish_primitives
/usr/bin/ld: CMakeFiles/publish_primitives.dir/src/publish_primitives.o: undefined reference to symbol 'vtkSmartPointerBase::operator=(vtkObjectBase*)'
/usr/bin/ld: note: 'vtkSmartPointerBase::operator=(vtkObjectBase*)' is defined in DSO /usr/lib/libvtkCommon.so.5.6 so try adding it to the linker command line
/usr/lib/libvtkCommon.so.5.6: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
...

I manually added the required libraries in CMakeLists.txt (below) and it fixes the compiler problem.

rosbuild_add_executable(publish_primitives src/publish_primitives.cpp)
target_link_libraries(publish_primitives libvtkCommon.so libvtkFiltering.so )

Messing with the compiler flags for pcl is beyond me, so I'll leave it to the higher ups to figure out what is going on.