Unknown CMake command "check_symbol_exists

[arjunskumar]

Please add include(CheckSymbolExists) to the CMakeLists.txt
Tested on ROS melodic

[atinfinity]

@arjunskumar Thank you for your comment.
If you possible, could you please tell me the reason for closing the issue?

[arjunskumar]

@atinfinity When I did catkin_make I got this error "Unknown CMake command "check_symbol_exists".
By adding include(CheckSymbolExists) to the CMaklists.txt, I was able to build the package properly.

[atinfinity]

@arjunskumar Could you tell me the following information?

• CMake version
• OS(Ubuntu 18.04?)
• ROS Distribution(Melodic?)

[arjunskumar]

@atinfinity

• Ubuntu 18.04
• ROS Melodic
• CMake Version 3.18.2

[atinfinity]

@arjunskumar Thank you for your information. I will reproduce and investigate.

[atinfinity]

I tried to build using the following environment.

• Ubuntu 18.04
• ROS Melodic
• CMake Version 3.10.2

I could build amcl.

Build message

$ catkin_make
Base path: /home/melodic/catkin_ws
Source space: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/src
Build space: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/build
Devel space: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/devel
Install space: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/install
Creating symlink "/home/melodic/catkin_ws/src/CMakeLists.txt" pointing to "/opt/ros/melodic/share/catkin/cmake/toplevel.cmake"
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#### Running command: "cmake /home/melodic/catkin_ws/src -DCATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX=/home/melodic/catkin_ws/devel -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/melodic/catkin_ws/install -G Unix Makefiles" in "/home/melodic/catkin_ws/build"
####
-- The C compiler identification is GNU 7.5.0
-- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 7.5.0
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc
-- Check for working C compiler: /usr/bin/cc -- works
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/bin/c++ -- works
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Using CATKIN_DEVEL_PREFIX: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/devel
-- Using CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: /opt/ros/melodic
-- This workspace overlays: /opt/ros/melodic
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python2 (found suitable version "2.7.17", minimum required is "2") 
-- Using PYTHON_EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/python2
-- Using Debian Python package layout
-- Using empy: /usr/bin/empy
-- Using CATKIN_ENABLE_TESTING: ON
-- Call enable_testing()
-- Using CATKIN_TEST_RESULTS_DIR: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/build/test_results
-- Found gtest sources under '/usr/src/googletest': gtests will be built
-- Found gmock sources under '/usr/src/googletest': gmock will be built
-- Found PythonInterp: /usr/bin/python2 (found version "2.7.17") 
-- Looking for pthread.h
-- Looking for pthread.h - found
-- Looking for pthread_create
-- Looking for pthread_create - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthreads - not found
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread
-- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found
-- Found Threads: TRUE  
-- Using Python nosetests: /usr/bin/nosetests-2.7
-- catkin 0.7.28
-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on
-- BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is on
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- ~~  traversing 1 packages in topological order:
-- ~~  - amcl
-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-- +++ processing catkin package: 'amcl'
-- ==> add_subdirectory(amcl)
-- Using these message generators: gencpp;geneus;genlisp;gennodejs;genpy
-- Boost version: 1.65.1
-- Found CUDA: /usr/local/cuda (found version "10.2") 
-- Looking for unistd.h
-- Looking for unistd.h - found
-- Looking for drand48
-- Looking for drand48 - found
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /home/melodic/catkin_ws/build
####
#### Running command: "make -j16 -l16" in "/home/melodic/catkin_ws/build"
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I'll try to update CMake.

[atinfinity]

@arjunskumar Thank you for your report. I reproduce this issue. And, I resoved in #4.