Userfriendly error message for missing DEPENDENCIES in generate_messages about genmsg HOT 5 CLOSED

agreed, especially for someone new to catkin who is pretty sure he included all the proper depend strings and is very confused as to why it is 'missing'..... /le sigh...

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Three months after the groovy release I find myself adding the documentation to actually build a real package that generates ROS messages that depend on other messages...

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Not to mention the fact that "std_msgs" is mentioned in the following places if you want to use something in std_msgs in a message that you generate:

<build_depend>std_msgs</build_depend>
<run_depend>std_msgs</run_depend>

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS std_msgs)
#...
generate_messages(DEPENDENCIES std_msgs)
#...
catkin_package(CATKIN_DEPENDS std_msgs)

Yes I understand this is a catkin issue as much as it's a genmsg issue. @tkruse

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I am surprised that generate_messages() automatically creates install targets for the messages. It's uncharacteristically user-friendly in that regard.

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Thanks!

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