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+DESCRIPTION = "Standalone Python library for generating ROS message and service data structures for various languages."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=9;endline=9;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/genmsg-release/archive/release/genmsg/0.4.17.tar.gz;downloadfilename=genmsg_0.4.17.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "cd88647b1f37987e75a543ff826dbfcb"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "12509645b02dbe8180321fc263abb45feded4cc1172eb485a2780ed93607e64e"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/genmsg-release-release-genmsg-0.4.17"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit distutils cmake pythonnative
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+