Catkin plugin: host library linked during build
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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.
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Issue body
Somehow a shared library on my system ROS install is getting linked into the snap, and because it does not match the version installed into the snap, it causes a runtime error.
To reproduce, install an older version of ros-kinetic-moveit-ros-planning-interface onto the host system. (it should work with any package, that's just the one I happened to discover the mismatch on). Then, download the attached code and build with snapcraft. Install and run, and you will get the following error (in this case, 0.9.8 was the version installed on my host and 0.9.9 was the latest in the repositories installed into the snap):
$ bad-link-example
/snap/bad-link-example/x1/opt/ros/kinetic/lib/my_pkg/bad_link: error while loading shared libraries: libmoveit_move_group_interface.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I imagine the problem is an errant /opt/ros/kinetic floating around some setup.sh or _setup_util.py file during build time. I did notice that on parts/my-pkg/build/devel_isolated/my_pkg/_setup_util.py:265 it was included in the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH = '/home/ruddick/bad-link-example/parts/my-pkg/install/opt/ros/kinetic;/opt/ros/kinetic'.split(';')
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | 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. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Abandoned and closed without resolution. The report detailed host ROS libraries incorrectly linking into snaps via a stale CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH during build. No fix was implemented. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Abandoned. The catkin plugin incorrectly linked a host ROS shared library during build, causing runtime version mismatches due to host paths leaking into CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH. No fix was implemented. |
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