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How do I use catkin_tools to build only a subset of packages from the current workspace in debug mode?
To build the whole workspace in debug mode, you would call catkin build --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug which sets the cmake variable CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE for all packages.
But how can I set different variable values for different packages in the same workspace?
I have a similar situation and use a workaround way to do this. In my case, I need to build 2 sets, [packs1] in release and [packs2] in debug, and some of packages in [packs2] depends on some packs in [packs1] (not the other way around). I would do:
catkin config --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Releasecatkin build [packs1]catkin config --blacklist [packs1]catkin config --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debugcatkin build [packs2]The settings of the whole workspace changed after the [packs1] are built, but [packs1] will not be rebuilt since black-listed. I also considered not changing workspace settings and using catkin build [packs2] --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug, but in verbose mode you can see the argument list of cmake command has both -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug and -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release, I don't know how this is defined, so for safety I change the ws settings. It turns out the [packs2] work properly.
Asked: 2018-08-13 07:44:21 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 13 '18
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I don't believe this is currently supported, unfortunately.
Or: it's not really supported. You could try to see whether you can setup two profiles with different
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPEconfigured and different whilte/black lists for pkgs. I'm not sure it'll work (ie: have both sets available .... at the same time) though.
Another option could be two workspaces overlaid. One with the debug pkgs, the other with the regular ones.