How to compile sicktoolbox_wrapper2

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You are attempting to compile the package with Catkin, while it is a rosbuild one (legacy ROS build system). Please see the differences here.

It is possible to make a rosbuild overlay workspace on top of your catkin workspace. Please read Using robuild with catkin. Particularly pay attention to sections 3.3 and onwards.

P.S. Unfortunately I had no time to catkinize the package back in 2013 and now I have no access to the hardware to make sure everything works.

(it took me a while to understand I didn't press the Post button)

EDIT:

Regarding the autoconf. If you are on Ubuntu install it with:

sudo apt-get install autoconf

EDIT 2:

I tried to reproduce the error you have mentioned in the comments, but almost everything worked fine. The only problem I can spot is that you are cloning the laser_drivers stack into sicktoolbox2 directory, that seems to be wrong because the actual stack name is laser_drivers.

Make sure the workspaces were sourced correctly. To do that unset all ROS environment variables (the ones that have ROS_ prefix) or simply comment the lines in your .bashrc file that source ROS workspace setups, e.g. ~/catkin/devel/setup.bash (if you have any) and restart the terminal. Also remove the rosbuild workspace folder.

Then source catkin workspace:

$ source ~/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash

Create rosbuild overlay:

$ mkdir ~/rosbuild_ws
$ cd ~/rosbuild_ws
$ rosws init . ~/catkin_ws/devel

Add laser_drivers stack with sicktoolbox2 to rosbuild overlay:

# Pay attention to the parameter after 'set' argument
$ rosws set laser_drivers --set https://bitbucket.org/koreatech-ugv/laser_drivers.git
$ rosws update laser_drivers

Source rosbuild overlay:

$ source ~/rosbuild_ws/setup.bash

Additionally, to make bash tab-completion work for downloaded packages and stacks:

$ rosstack profile
$ rospack profile

Finally, build the stack:

$ rosmake laser_drivers

In my case the last step failed to build hokyo_node package, but I think that can be ignored if you don't need it. The sicktoolbox2 and sicktoolbox_wrapper2 compiled without errors.

If you still encounter the problem with download_checkmd5.py after following the above steps, it might be necessary to reinstall ROS.