Build failed with latest ros2 rolling source builds

[chanhhoang99]

Bug report

Required Info:

• Operating System:
  • Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
• ROS2 Version:
  • rolling ridley
• Version or commit hash:
  • 771eca4
• DDS implementation:
  • Fast-RTPS

Steps to reproduce issue

Build ros2 from source: https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/Alternatives/Ubuntu-Development-Setup.html

Then follow instruction to build nav2 https://docs.nav2.org/development_guides/build_docs/index.html

Expected behavior

Build should be passed

Actual behavior

Received failure log:

In file included from /home/server/nav2_ws/src/navigation2/nav2_util/src/robot_utils.cpp:21:
/home/server/ros2_ws/install/tf2/include/tf2/tf2/convert.h:39:7: error: #warning CONVERT_HEADER_DEPERCATION [-Werror=cpp]
   39 |     # warning CONVERT_HEADER_DEPERCATION
      |       ^~~~~~~
In file included from /home/server/nav2_ws/src/navigation2/nav2_util/include/nav2_util/robot_utils.hpp:27,
                 from /home/server/nav2_ws/src/navigation2/nav2_util/src/robot_utils.cpp:22:
/home/server/ros2_ws/install/tf2/include/tf2/tf2/time.h:36:7: error: #warning TIME_HEADER_DEPERCATION [-Werror=cpp]
   36 |     # warning TIME_HEADER_DEPERCATION
      |       ^~~~~~~
In file included from /home/server/nav2_ws/src/navigation2/nav2_util/include/nav2_util/robot_utils.hpp:28:
/home/server/ros2_ws/install/tf2/include/tf2/tf2/transform_datatypes.h:39:7: error: #warning TRANSFORM_DATATYPES_HEADER_DEPERCATION [-Werror=cpp]
   39 |     # warning TRANSFORM_DATATYPES_HEADER_DEPERCATION
      |       ^~~~~~~
In file included from /home/server/nav2_ws/src/navigation2/nav2_util/src/costmap.cpp:18:
/home/server/ros2_ws/install/tf2/include/tf2/tf2/LinearMath/Quaternion.h:23:7: error: #warning QUATERNION_HEADER_DEPERCATION [-Werror=cpp]
   23 |     # warning QUATERNION_HEADER_DEPERCATION
      |       ^~~~~~~
cc1plus: all warnings being treated as errors

Additional information

There is change from upstream of ros2/tf2 headers, should we use -Wno-error=cpp to ignore this error ?

[SteveMacenski]

A few updates were made before the holidays in TF -- we have an open PR for updating to resolve the API change here #4732. I retriggered CI to check if we're all building again and will merge once ready!

Thanks for the report

[SteveMacenski]

@chanhhoang99 are you building geometry2 rolling from source? I'm not seeing it in the binaries yet and there hasn't been a rolling release since the depreciation warnings were added.

[chanhhoang99]

Hi @SteveMacenski ,
Yes, I built geometry2 from source.

[SteveMacenski]

@chanhhoang99 we should have this resolved sometime this month for source builds, for now you could use the tagged version of rolling's geometry_msgs instead of the latest on the main branch (0.40.0). That would fix your source build version (unless you critically needed something that has been added in the last ~6-8 weeks).

We could also update Nav2's CI to have geometry2 built from source as well and merge this in, but that would break main for all other users on rolling's binaries. I'd wager there are more binary-rolling users than source-rolling users, so I want to make sure I'm considerate of other developer's needs.

[SteveMacenski]

L.O.L. for me

The rolling release just happened 20 hours ago. I kick started that PR job and likely should be able to merge this within an hour to resolve the problem 😆

[SteveMacenski]

Merged! Thanks for the report

[AdarshKaran]

Hi, I am experiencing a similar issue with the following setup:

System Details:

• OS: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
• ROS 2 Distro: Rolling
• DDS Implementation: Fast DDS (default)

Installation Steps:

1. Installed ROS 2 Rolling from binaries (via Debian packages) as given in ROS 2 Rolling Installation Guide. This has been upgraded to the latest version.

2. Followed the Nav2 build instructions from Nav2 Development Guide.

---

Issue:

After cloning the "main" branch of the repo as per Step 2. above, I ran the following command:

rosdep install -y \
  --from-paths ./src \
  --ignore-src
colcon build \
  --symlink-install

All the dependencies were installed but I got the following error.

ERROR: the following packages/stacks could not have their rosdep keys resolved
to system dependencies:
nav2_bringup: Cannot locate rosdep definition for [slam_toolbox]

But, according to the Nav2 build docs this is expected and can be ignored. After this, I encountered the following error log and the build failed:

Starting >>> nav2_common
Starting >>> nav_2d_msgs
Starting >>> nav2_loopback_sim
Finished <<< nav2_common [0.32s]                                   
Starting >>> nav2_msgs
Starting >>> nav2_voxel_grid
Starting >>> opennav_docking_core
Finished <<< nav_2d_msgs [0.33s]
Starting >>> dwb_msgs
Finished <<< opennav_docking_core [0.09s]                        
Finished <<< nav2_voxel_grid [0.28s]                             
--- stderr: nav2_loopback_sim                                    
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/setuptools/command/easy_install.py:363: UserWarning: Unbuilt egg for pytest-repeat [unknown version] (/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages)
  self.local_index = Environment(self.shadow_path + sys.path)
---
Finished <<< nav2_loopback_sim [0.83s]
--- stderr: nav2_msgs                                             
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/ros/rolling/lib/rosidl_generator_type_description/rosidl_generator_type_description", line 50, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
             ^^^^^^
  File "/opt/ros/rolling/lib/rosidl_generator_type_description/rosidl_generator_type_description", line 46, in main
    generate_type_hash(args.generator_arguments_file)
  File "/opt/ros/rolling/lib/python3.12/site-packages/rosidl_generator_type_description/__init__.py", line 162, in generate_type_hash
    with include_path.open('r') as include_file:
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3.12/pathlib.py", line 1015, in open
    return io.open(self, mode, buffering, encoding, errors, newline)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/ros/rolling/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStampedArray.json'
gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/nav2_msgs__rosidl_generator_type_description.dir/build.make:153: rosidl_generator_type_description/nav2_msgs/msg/CollisionMonitorState.json] Error 1
gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:215: CMakeFiles/nav2_msgs__rosidl_generator_type_description.dir/all] Error 2
gmake: *** [Makefile:146: all] Error 2
---
Failed   <<< nav2_msgs [2.47s, exited with code 2]
Aborted  <<< dwb_msgs [3.61s]                                

Summary: 5 packages finished [4.10s]
  1 package failed: nav2_msgs
  1 package aborted: dwb_msgs
  2 packages had stderr output: nav2_loopback_sim nav2_msgs

Specifically, this line

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/opt/ros/rolling/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStampedArray.json'

Any guidance would be appreciated! Thank You!

[chanhhoang99]

@AdarshKaran ,
Please try build(https://docs.ros.org/en/rolling/Installation/Alternatives/Ubuntu-Development-Setup.html) ros2 from source then source ros2 setup.bash file
Below is mine ros2 build workspace, you should see missing file

server@server-sim-1:~/ros2_ws/install$ find . -name PoseStam*
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStamped.idl
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStampedArray.idl
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStamped.json
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStampedArray.json
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStampedArray.msg
./geometry_msgs/share/geometry_msgs/msg/PoseStamped.msg

[SteveMacenski]

Right now, you need to build geometry_msgs from source for Nav2 rolling. We made a big update that involved a new message definition that was added to geometry_msgs but is not yet released into binaries.

Clean your workspace's build/install spaces; clone geometry_msgs rolling branch; build -- you should be good to go. On the next rolling sync, this goes away!

[AdarshKaran]

Right now, you need to build geometry_msgs from source for Nav2 rolling. We made a big update that involved a new message definition that was added to geometry_msgs but is not yet released into binaries.

Clean your workspace's build/install spaces; clone geometry_msgs rolling branch; build -- you should be good to go. On the next rolling sync, this goes away!

Thank You so much @SteveMacenski . It works fine now! I built the geometry_msgs package from source and it worked.
Thank You @chanhhoang99 for your help too.