Catkin plugin: No support for arm64
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Abandoned. The Catkin plugin cannot build on arm64 due to missing upstream ROS archive packages. The limitation remains unaddressed.
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Issue body
The Catkin plugin uses the ROS archives to install package dependencies, but the archives have no packages for arm64, which means no Catkin packages can be built on arm64.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned. The Catkin plugin cannot build on arm64 due to missing upstream ROS archive packages. The limitation remains unaddressed. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Closed without resolution due to inactivity. The Catkin plugin remains unsupported on arm64 because upstream ROS archives lack arm64 packages. The report was abandoned. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Closed without resolution. The Catkin plugin lacks arm64 support because upstream ROS archives do not provide arm64 packages. No fix or workaround was implemented, leaving the issue abandoned. |
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| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1827 cross-compilation support for catkin plugin | snapcraft | closed | Closed without implementation. Cross-compiling the catkin plugin requires complex ROS dependency handling. Maintainers recommended using Launchpad builder services for ARM snaps and redirected issue tracking to Launchpad. | |
| #1628990 Catkin plugin: example doesn't build on vanilla install | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | The Catkin plugin build failure on systems lacking python or gcc was closed without resolution. No fix was implemented, and the report remains unaddressed. | |
| #1629003 Catkin plugin: support kinetic | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Kinetic support for the Catkin plugin was closed without resolution or discussion, likely abandoned or superseded by newer ROS releases. | |
| #1638317 Catkin plugin doesn't build pure python workspaces | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Abandoned due to inactivity. The catkin plugin incorrectly omits gcc and g++ for pure Python ROS workspaces, though both compilers are required. No fix or follow-up was provided. | |
| #1823788 Catkin plugin doesn't notice ROS dependencies satisfied by stage-snaps | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution. The Catkin plugin limitation regarding stage-snap ROS dependencies was abandoned, with no fix implemented. | |
| #1714133 Catkin plugin: host library linked during build | snapcraft (launchpad) | closed | Closed without resolution due to inactivity. The report identified a catkin plugin bug where host ROS shared libraries were incorrectly linked during snap builds, causing runtime version mismatches. No fix was implemented. |