Make meta-ros layer compatible with kirkstone yocto version

[freallearn]

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[shr-project]

I no longer maintain this layer, but @moto-timo has few changes to make this compatible https://github.com/moto-timo/meta-ros/commits/kirkstone

Future maintenance of meta-ros was discussed in OSRF TSC https://discourse.ros.org/t/ros-2-tsc-meeting-january-20th-2022/23986/3 , but I haven't seen any update since then (I don't follow discourse very closely).

[shr-project]

#1009

[bchoineubility]

Hi,

I nearly can build ros-image-core with moto-timo/meta-ros but, ros-image-world.

Maybe, it would be not tried in kirkstone and yocto yet.

please, if there are any update for it.

BR,
Mark

[robwoolley]

I just pushed support for Noetic, Humble, and Iron to the kirkstone-next branch. It builds with ros-image-core and getting ros-image-world working is desirable. Any feedback you have would be valuable. I encourage you to file issues with anything you find.

Regards,
Rob

[bchoineubility]

@robwoolley Many thanks for this release.

May I use kirkstone branch instead of kirkstone-next ?

BR,
Mark

[robwoolley]

Yes, you can. Both branches match at the moment.

I also just created a PR for Humble-Kirkstone that fixes the ROS packages to fix build failures when building for 64-bit machines: #1057

I intend to merge it once I do more testing to make sure I haven't broken anything.