Check ROS Version in CMake File with Catkin

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Not the version of the package but the version of ROS: jade, kinetic, lunar

If you want to know the distro (e.g. kinetic, lunar etc.), you can check the ROS_DISTRO environment variable, and similar to this file: you can try to look for the ROS header file if the environment variable wasn't set:

set(ROS_FOUND FALSE)
if(DEFINED ENV{ROS_DISTRO})
  set(FOUND_ROS_DISTRO $ENV{ROS_DISTRO})
  set(ROS_FOUND TRUE)
else()
  message("ROS distro variable not set. Trying to figure it out...")
  set(AVAILABLE_ROS_VERSIONS "melodic;lunar;kinetic;jade;indigo")
  set(ROS_FOUND FALSE)
  foreach(version ${AVAILABLE_ROS_VERSIONS})
    if(NOT ROS_FOUND)
      find_path(ROS_H ros.h PATHS /opt/ros/${version}/include/ros)
      if(ROS_H)
        message("Found ros version ${version}")
        set(FOUND_ROS_DISTRO ${version})
        set(ROS_FOUND TRUE)
      endif()
    endif()
  endforeach()
endif()

if(ROS_FOUND)
  if($ENV{ROS_DISTRO} STREQUAL "melodic")
    message("Using ROS Kinetic")
    # Do stuff specific to Kinetic
  elseif($ENV{ROS_DISTRO} STREQUAL "lunar")
    message("Using ROS Lunar")
    # Do stuff specific to Lunar

  # ... check other versions ...

  else()
    message("Unknown ROS distro:")
    message($ENV{ROS_DISTRO})
  endif()
else()
  message("ROS distro is unknown.")
endif()