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reset CATKIN_WHITELIST_PACKAGES

asked 2017-03-15 08:34:56 -0500

takahashi
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I am building a subset of the packages in my catkin workspace using CATKIN_WHITELIST_PACKAGES. However, when I want to rebuild the whole workspace (without CATKIN_WHITELIST_PACKAGES set), it still only builds the whitelisted packages. I assumed that the whitelist is only temporary for each build, but it seems like it is globally stored. I couldn't find any documentation on it.

If I want to change the whitelist, the only thing I can do is to remove build and devel. Can anyone provide me with some more information about CATKIN_WHITELIST_PACKAGES, i.e. what exactly it does and where it is stored?

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answered 2017-03-15 10:13:19 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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Search for CATKIN_WHITELIST_PACKAGES in the ROS wiki returned the following page. It describes the usage of that variable and how to revert back to building all packages: http://wiki.ros.org/catkin/commands/c...