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List:       orocos-dev
Subject:    [Orocos-Dev] autoproj/manifest: rtt_typelib is neither a package nor a source
From:       Charles.Lesire () onera ! fr (Charles Lesire-Cabaniols)
Date:       2011-06-20 11:05:55
Message-ID: 4DFF2993.8070003 () onera ! fr
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On 20/06/2011 12:59, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:
> On 06/20/2011 11:36 AM, Peter Soetens wrote:
>>> What was the error message, and how did you interpret it ?
>> You can mimick the error I get by removing the cmake_package(
>> rtt_typelib ) line from orocos.autobuild.
>>
>> The error was: "autoproj/manifest: rtt_typelib is neither a package
>> nor a source" So I thought it was picking up the layout in the
>> manifest file (as it suggests) but could not map it to a source.yaml
>> file, ie, that it didn't know the package was on gitorious. it should
>> have said: "I found this package, but I don't know how to build it.
>> See orocos.autobuild."
> Well, it should actually say that the package is not defined in any
> autobuild file.
>
> autoproj has no way to know that you expect it to be in orocos.autobuild
>
> Sylvain
The current error message sounds clear to me actually (because I already 
encountered it a few times ;)).

Instead of modifying it, the best would be to have a FAQ somewhere on 
the Orocos wiki (or Rock's one) such that people can find what's the 
message really means and how to solve it!

Charles.

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