we patch catkin as catkin assumes that every linux is an ubuntu system but the...

we patch catkin as catkin assumes that every linux is an ubuntu system but the openembedded linux system is not

recipes-ros/catkin/catkin/catkin-change_default_for_debsetuptools.patch

+diff -cr a/cmake/python.cmake b/cmake/python.cmake
+*** a/cmake/python.cmake	2012-12-22 03:30:48.000000000 +0100
+--- b/cmake/python.cmake	2013-01-11 09:25:35.790346760 +0100
+***************
+*** 6,12 ****
+  set(PYTHON_VERSION_XDOTY ${PYTHON_VERSION_XDOTY} CACHE STRING "Python version")
+  
+  #This should be resolved automatically one day...
+! option(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT "ON for debian style python packages layout" ON)
+  
+  if(APPLE OR MSVC)
+    set(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT OFF)
+--- 6,12 ----
+  set(PYTHON_VERSION_XDOTY ${PYTHON_VERSION_XDOTY} CACHE STRING "Python version")
+  
+  #This should be resolved automatically one day...
+! option(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT "ON for debian style python packages layout" OFF)
+  
+  if(APPLE OR MSVC)
+    set(SETUPTOOLS_DEB_LAYOUT OFF)

recipes-ros/catkin/catkin_0.5.58.bb

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ SECTION = "devel"
 # TODO: License of catkin unmentioned in the repository
 LICENSE = "CLOSED"
 
-SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/catkin/archive/0.5.58.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros/catkin/archive/0.5.58.tar.gz \
+  file://catkin-change_default_for_debsetuptools.patch"
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e4df85e60dc792af9324334547cc76aa"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "dd99cc04eeaf16a13185dd0a2f576939fa997dfb16a40ba45068c4d2ebbcb44b"