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I agree with @gvdhoom that pending a better description of your exact error, the likely problem is one or more missing add_dependencies() commands for various build targets.

Additional documentation related to this question:

http://docs.ros.org/api/catkin/html/howto/cpp_msg_dependencies.html
http://docs.ros.org/api/catkin/html/howto/building_msgs.html

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