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what is "TOP_DIR_YOUR_CATKIN_HOME"?

asked 2017-02-12 07:34:54 -0500

wenlihua gravatar image

what is "TOP_DIR_YOUR_CATKIN_HOME"?

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answered 2017-02-12 07:45:03 -0500

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It would have been nice if you'd included a link to wherever you saw that.

Searching, it appears this is something that is used in some PCL tutorials (wiki/pcl/Tutorials/groovy/How to use a PCL tutorial in ROS fi), like so:

$ cd %TOP_DIR_YOUR_CATKIN_HOME%
$ catkin_make

The first line basically instructs you to cd into the root of your Catkin workspace. That would be $HOME/catkin_ws if you followed any of the Catkin tutorials (but could really be anywhere obviously).

Btw: if the tutorial I linked above is really one that you are following, then note that it is rather outdated. Groovy was EOLed quite some time ago and PCL is not longer a ROS package, but a system dependency.

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See #q79236 for what is basically a duplicate.

gvdhoorn gravatar image gvdhoorn  ( 2017-02-12 07:45:31 -0500 )edit

thanks so much! i just follow the http://wiki.ros.org/pcl/Tutorials . my catkin workspace is home/lihua/my_pcl_tutorial. but when i cd to there, i got an error.

wenlihua gravatar image wenlihua  ( 2017-02-12 07:54:42 -0500 )edit

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