Trouble with Catkin: Compiling node and generating messages in same package.

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Hi Guys,

I am currently catkinizing the ublox driver found here: https://github.com/tu-darmstadt-ros-pkg/ublox

The node "ublox_msgs" builds a library and generates a number of messages at the same time. The library that is built in the package depends on the generated message header files that is created during compile time.

The problem is that it tries to compile the library without waiting for all the message headers to all be generated. The result is a error that it can not find one of the generated header files. For example:

../../ublox_msgs/include/ublox_msgs/ublox_msgs.h:41:35: fatal error: ublox_msgs/NavTIMEGPS.h: No such file or directory

I can see the messages being generated, and if I run "cakin_make" multiple times, it will generate all the headers and no longer error out. But I would like it to generate the message headers and then compile the library, so a error does not happen. I know the library and the messages should probably be in separate packages, but I just wanted to get it working in its current state.

I tried following what was referenced in this post, but it did not seem to work either: http://answers.ros.org/question/53265/catkin-messages-and-node-in-same-package/

Here is my package.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<package>
  <name>ublox_msgs</name>
  <version>0.0.0</version>
  <description>
  </description>

  <maintainer email="jane.doe@example.com">Jane Doe</maintainer>
  <license>TODO</license>

  <buildtool_depend>catkin</buildtool_depend>

  <build_depend>message_generation</build_depend>
  <build_depend>roscpp</build_depend>
  <build_depend>ublox_serialization</build_depend>

  <run_depend>message_runtime</run_depend>
  <run_depend>roscpp</run_depend>
  <run_depend>ublox_serialization</run_depend>

  <export>
  </export>
</package>

Here is my CMakeLists.txt file:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.3)
project(ublox_msgs)

find_package(catkin REQUIRED COMPONENTS genmsg ublox_serialization roscpp)

## Generate messages in the 'msg' folder
add_message_files(
    DIRECTORY msg
    FILES
    AidALM.msg
    AidEPH.msg
    AidHUI.msg
    CfgANT.msg
    CfgCFG.msg
    CfgMSG.msg
    CfgNAV5.msg
    CfgPRT.msg
    CfgRATE.msg
    CfgSBAS.msg
    NavCLOCK.msg
    NavDGPS.msg
    NavDGPS_SV.msg
    NavDOP.msg
    NavPOSECEF.msg
    NavPOSLLH.msg
    NavSBAS.msg
    NavSBAS_SV.msg
    NavSOL.msg
    NavSTATUS.msg
    NavSVINFO.msg
    NavSVINFO_SV.msg
    NavTIMEGPS.msg
    NavTIMEUTC.msg
    NavVELECEF.msg
    NavVELNED.msg
    RxmALM.msg
    RxmEPH.msg
    RxmRAW.msg
    RxmRAW_SV.msg
    RxmSFRB.msg
    RxmSVSI.msg
    RxmSVSI_SV.msg
)

## Generate added messages and services with any dependencies listed here
 generate_messages()

catkin_package(
   INCLUDE_DIRS include
   LIBRARIES ${PROJECT_NAME}
#  CATKIN_DEPENDS message_runtime
#  DEPENDS ublox_msgs
)

include_directories(include
  ${catkin_INCLUDE_DIRS}
)

## Declare a cpp library
add_library(ublox_msgs
   src/ublox_msgs.cpp
)

## Add cmake target dependencies of the executable/library
## as an example, message headers may need to be generated before nodes
add_dependencies(${PROJECT_NAME} ${PROJECT_NAME}_gencpp)

## Specify libraries to link a library or executable target against
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${catkin_LIBRARIES})

I tried to follow the tutorials as much as possible: https://github.com/ros/catkin_tutorials/blob/master/create_package_pubsub/catkin_ws/src/beginner_tutorials/CMakeLists.txt

Does anyone see a issue in these files? Or maybe there is still a bug in Catkin?

Thank you for your help.

Update

So it looks like it works with catkin_make -j1 but NOT with just catkin_make. So it seems to be possibly a bug with running multiple jobs at once ... (more)