Installing groovy from source fails

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Hello!

I'm trying to install ros-groovy from source in an open-nao1.14 virtual machine (a gentoo derivative for NAO). The idea is to be able to then copy&paste the contents of /opt/ros/groovy and associated dependencies and have ROS working on an actual NAO.

After downloading ros-comm I execute (as per the instructions on the wiki )

./src/catkin/bin/catkin_make_isolated --install --install-space /opt/ros/groovy

But when the script calls make install installation fails because catkin's setup.py cannot recognise the option --install-layout=deb which the script is automatically adding. This is the exact error message:

+ /usr/bin/env PYTHONPATH=/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:/home/nao/ros/build_isolated/catkin/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:/opt/ros/groovy/lib/python2.7/dist-packages:/opt/ros/pydeps/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ CATKIN_BINARY_DIR=/home/nao/ros/build_isolated/catkin /usr/bin/python /home/nao/ros/src/catkin/setup.py build --build-base /home/nao/ros/build_isolated/catkin install --install-layout=deb --prefix=/opt/ros/groovy --install-scripts=/opt/ros/groovy/bin

usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
   or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
   or: setup.py --help-commands
   or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --install-layout not recognized
CMake Error at catkin_generated/safe_execute_install.cmake:4 (message):

  execute_process(/home/nao/ros/build_isolated/catkin/catkin_generated /python_distutils_install.sh)
  returned error code
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake_install.cmake:115 (INCLUDE)

Any ideas on how to get it to compile?

Thanks!

Update: Here's the output of the commands requested.

Calling catkin's build & install command straight from python:

$ python setup.py build install --install-layout=deb
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
or: setup.py --help-commands
or: setup.py cmd --help

error: option --install-layout not recognized

Python version:

$ /usr/bin/python --version
Python 2.7.2

Update 2: setup.py instructions

Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

  setup.py build      will build the package underneath 'build/'
  setup.py install    will install the package

Global options:
  --verbose (-v)  run verbosely (default)
  --quiet (-q)    run quietly (turns verbosity off)
  --dry-run (-n)  don't actually do anything
  --help (-h)     show detailed help message
  --no-user-cfg   ignore pydistutils.cfg in your home directory

Options for 'install' command:
  --prefix            installation prefix
  --exec-prefix       (Unix only) prefix for platform-specific files
  --home              (Unix only) home directory to install under
  --user              install in user site-package
                  '/home/nao/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages'
  --install-base      base installation directory (instead of --prefix or --
                  home)
  --install-platbase  base installation directory for platform-specific files
                  (instead of --exec-prefix or --home)
  --root              install everything relative to this alternate root
                  directory
  --install-purelib   installation directory for pure Python module
                  distributions
  --install-platlib   installation directory for non-pure module distributions
  --install-lib       installation directory for all module distributions
                  (overrides --install-purelib and --install-platlib)
  --install-headers   installation directory for C/C++ headers
  --install-scripts   installation directory for Python scripts
  --install-data      installation directory for data files
  --compile (-c)      compile .py to .pyc [default]
  --no-compile        don't compile .py files
  --optimize (-O)     also compile with optimization: -O1 for "python -O", -O2
                  for "python -OO", and -O0 ...