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build fail on ubuntu with dashing

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When generating javascript messages, I got the following error message

Start to generate the JavaScript messages...
Caught error: Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/opt/ros/dashing/share/tf2_msgs/action/msg'

It looks like the current method to support action creates the .msg files from the .action files and uses them to generate the messages. This fails in ubuntu as its trying to create .msg files in a directory owned by root.

The result is that some messages are not generated, particularly packages that include both .action and .msg files, e.g. example_interfaces. This also causes some tests to fail as they rely on example_interfaces.

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

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koonpengcommented, Sep 12, 2019

Yes, they are installed using apt. For now I am working around it by commenting out some lines to disable actions too.

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minggangwcommented, Dec 5, 2019

The implementation of actionlib of rclnodejs is prior to that of rcl, so me have marked the actionlib as deprecated (we haven’t achieved to wrap the actionlib related functions from rcl and exposed them). I prefer to remove the generation for .action because they become useless now, which will eliminate the current error you meet on Linux.

I am going to submit a PR to remove it, thanks