Integrating ROS in buildroot ?

Hi,

I am currently working on a project where the is a need for ROS
(http://www.ros.org/) on the target.
ROS is currently no part of buildroot packages. It is part of Yocto/OpenEmbedded, though.

I am attempting to integrate it, so my first question is if someone-else already has plan to do so.

My second question is related to one hard point to achieve it:
ROS git repository (see: https://github.com/ros/ros_comm) is composed of -many- subdirectories, that have to be built with cmake each.

Cloning the repos each time, for building these directories one by one would be inefficient, and painful, because I do not want
to have such a package granularity.
The other issue is that the current cmake infrastructure does not support multidir build (yet). So I as thinking about extending it, but again, would like to be sure if there no other way to to so.

Regards
Thierry

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Glancing at their build instructions, it looks like they have their own
build infrastructure. So perhaps you just need to create some of the support packages and then some infrastructure to use it?

Anyway, if you want to build from git, you can define the SITE and
SOURCE in a common place like it is done for e.g. qt5, and then create individual packages with the same SITE and SOURCE but with a different SUBDIR. Then the whole thing will be downloaded only once, but it will still be extracted several times.

Regards,
Arnout

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