ROS_PACKAGE_PATH env variable is not set correctly after building crocoddyl with catkin build about crocoddyl HOT 8 OPEN

ROS 1 Noetic. It's an ANYbotics installation. I will try again with another machine and let you know. Thanks for the effort

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Hi @aristotpap,

Thanks for reporting this issue!

I have two questions for you

1. Are you using the latest devel branch of Crocoddyl?
2. Can you check if the ros_ws/install/.catkin files exist after compiling Crocoddyl?

Thanks,

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Hi @cmastalli ,

Thank you for replying promptly.

1. I have tried to build the master and v2.0.2 branches. They both give me the same result.

2. I currently haven't setup an install space. I have only devel, as you can see in the following screenshot:

The corresponding devel/.catkin before building crocoddyl is returning: /home/akron/catkin_ws/src/eigenpy;/home/akron/catkin_ws/src/pinocchio;/home/akron/catkin_ws/src/example-robot-data

After building crocoddyl, I am not able to find the .catkin file in devel folder. It seems that it is not created. The build logs are attached.
build_logs.txt

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@aristotpap -- could you test the PR in #1220? This should sort out this issue.

Btw, I suggest you compile and install Crocoddyl without catkin. It is much faster and more convenient to do so.

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Hello @cmastalli,

I tried to build both PR in #1220 and devel branch (since I saw that you merged it) and I was not able to build it successfully. The errors though seem unrelated. crocoddyl_build_logs.txt
These are the errors I am getting:

Finally, I tried to catkin build by copying the CMakeLists.txt and package.xml from your PR #1220 to master branch. It built successfully, but the problem with the ROS_PACKAGE_PATH still persists.

Note that during the weekend I was able to make it work by manually creating the .catkin file that you pointed out. But this is not a long term solution.

Thanks for the help!

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Hi, @aristotpap!

The compilation error you reported is fixed in #1221. You can see more details in that PR. I'll merge this PR after passing all jobs (I hope this afternoon). However, I suggest trying this PR and reporting back.

When I compiled the latest changes, I could see the correct stored information inside ros_ws/devel/.catkin. Is it the same for you? I ask this I believe the issue with ROS_PACKAGE_PATH is there.

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Hello @cmastalli,

I tried building devel branch and after PR #1221 it was built successfully. However, the issue remains. Whenever I try to build crocoddyl, or state it as dependency in package.xml, the ros_ws/devel/.catkin file is not even created. If I manually create and populate it, the packages work fine.

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I am surprised as I couldn't replicate this issue in ROS 1. Is this happening in ROS 2?

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