Unable to run roslint on all packages in a workspace?

To use roslint for a pkg foo I used to do:

catkin_make roslint_foo

However, I cannot figure out to get this working in catkin tools. I tried:

catkin build roslint_foo
catkin build --catkin-make-args roslint_foo
catkin build --make-args roslint_foo
catkin build --cmake-args roslint_foo

But none of this works… Doing it the old way works, but I need to clear my ws after that if I want to build using catkin build again. So essentially I recompile my full ws, which takes a lot of time…

So: does catkin tools not yet support roslint? Or am I doing it wrong?

[jbohren]

Oh I know what’s happening. You also need --no-deps, otherwise it will run on all the deps of the roslint’ed packages:

catkin build $(catkin list --depends-on roslint -u) --no-deps --catkin-make-args roslint

[jbohren]

Well I’m glad that that at least works. It’s also worth noting that a sloppily written package can depend directly on roslint, but not actually create any roslint targets, in which case, it will fail.

So it’s good that this can be done without modifying the source code, but it would be great to just pack this into a contributed roslint verb. It’s not too hard to write such a verb, and there’s documentation on doing so here: http://catkin-tools.readthedocs.org/en/latest/development/extending_the_catkin_command.html

This issue can be left open until this use case is in the documentation or there’s a contributed verb for it.