Remove ROS artifact from CMake install

asked 2018-05-23 07:33:54 -0500

David Kristiansen
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updated 2018-05-23 07:41:22 -0500

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I am using CPack to create .deb binaries. The relevant part of the CMakeLists.txt looks like this:

INSTALL(TARGETS ${PROJECT_NAME}_node  DESTINATION bin)
INSTALL(FILES doc/${PROJECT_NAME}.yaml DESTINATION share)
INSTALL(FILES doc/${PROJECT_NAME}.service DESTINATION lib/systemd/system)

SET(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER "Maintainer")
SET(CPACK_GENERATOR "DEB")

The .deb file gets build fine, the only problem i have is that ROS is adding som files:

.catkin
local/.rosinstall
local/env.sh
local/setup.{sh,bash,zsh}
local/_setup_util.py

Any idea on how I can stop those files from appearing?

answered 2018-05-23 09:12:05 -0500

Dirk Thomas
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To skip the generation / installation of these prefix level files you can pass -DCATKIN_BUILD_BINARY_PACKAGE=1 to the CMake invocation.

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This has bothered me for the good part of this day. This worked perfectly. Thank you. Is there some way of adding this to CMakeLists.txt?

I was a little fast there. I added SET(CATKIN_BUILD_BINARY_PACKAGE true) in my CMakeLists.txt. :)

David Kristiansen ( 2018-05-23 09:18:36 -0500 )edit

I wouldn't recommend that. Basically when you build the package from source you want these files to be created (in order to setup the environment to use them). It is a packaging specific argument. I am not sure if you can define CPack specific CMake arguments in the CMake file.