adding a number of recipes that build (on my machine)

recipes-ros/gencpp/gencpp_0.4.11.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "C++ ROS message and service generators."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=7;endline=7;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/gencpp-release/archive/release/gencpp/0.4.11.tar.gz;downloadfilename=gencpp_0.4.11.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "7a3e28fb0719805aa3a2059b6b0514fd"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "63258067e6c2ba034bfbcf6aaf396eb36c3c407023d7db0de1af774bbb12b6a9"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/gencpp-release-release-gencpp-0.4.11"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native genmsg"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  -Dgenmsg_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/genmsg/cmake/ \
+  "
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR

recipes-ros/genlisp/genlisp_0.4.10.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "Common-Lisp ROS message and service generators."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=9;endline=9;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/genlisp-release/archive/release/genlisp/0.4.10.tar.gz;downloadfilename=genlisp_0.4.10.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "ce2d424a6e0496248dc2dd0c1c383f12"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "d9be2ac2c64f05745ca7716bfea0e3e5857554f4caf769c8550e3502d5fc257d"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/genlisp-release-release-genlisp-0.4.10"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native genmsg"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  -Dgenmsg_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/genmsg/cmake/ \
+  "
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+

recipes-ros/genpy/genpy_0.4.10.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "Python ROS message and service generators."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=7;endline=7;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/genpy-release/archive/release/genpy/0.4.10.tar.gz;downloadfilename=genpy_0.4.10.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "694f2e0841c81a05874cf3f5801b16c1"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "00d585627d1f17090a99de3978dec2eef290bdadede397cf3588f7b2584ba975"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/genpy-release-release-genpy-0.4.10"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native genmsg"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  -Dgenmsg_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/genmsg/cmake/ \
+  "
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+

recipes-ros/message-generation/message-generation_0.2.9.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "Package modeling the build-time dependencies for generating language bindings of messages."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=7;endline=7;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/message_generation-release/archive/release/message_generation/0.2.9.tar.gz;downloadfilename=message-generation_0.2.9.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9458c88437cb9bc3f3b70dd4d67bf1f3"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "c474649944ec01ad2df80dc2674d235705771cd9a9cf3794fc9490b5fe9c0d5e"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/message_generation-release-release-message_generation-0.2.9"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native gencpp"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  -Dgencpp_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/gencpp/cmake/ \
+  "

recipes-ros/ros-comm/rosconsole_1.9.41.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "ROS console output library."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=6;endline=6;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/ros_comm-release/archive/release/rosconsole/1.9.41.tar.gz;downloadfilename=rosconsole_1.9.41.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b1aa08c225ae0f81728452e08effe933"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "40c86e3121de8651dafed5238b8647347cf40be96066e5fa01a82875aff4a6d3"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/ros_comm-release-release-rosconsole-1.9.41"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native apr boost cpp-common log4cxx rostime rosunit"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  -Dcpp_common_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/cpp_common/cmake/ \
+  -Drostime_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/rostime/cmake/ \
+  -Drosunit_DIR=${STAGING_DATADIR}/rosunit/cmake/ \
+  "

recipes-ros/ros-comm/rosgraph_1.9.41.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "rosgraph contains the rosgraph command-line tool, which prints \
+information about the ROS Computation Graph."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=10;endline=10;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/ros_comm-release/archive/release/rosgraph/1.9.41.tar.gz;downloadfilename=rosgraph_1.9.41.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c4a6fe2109e36f08e00634a60efa2b46"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "69c23ece0af24c68b404622bcbd224e84fa19da88cb08f80b62769849ba26e70"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/ros_comm-release-release-rosgraph-1.9.41"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  "
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+

recipes-ros/ros-comm/rosparam_1.9.41.bb

+DESCRIPTION = "the rosparam command-line tool for getting and setting \ 
+  ROS Parameters on the Parameter Server using YAML-encoded files."
+SECTION = "devel"
+LICENSE = "BSD"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://package.xml;beginline=15;endline=15;md5=d566ef916e9dedc494f5f793a6690ba5"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://github.com/ros-gbp/ros_comm-release/archive/release/rosparam/1.9.41.tar.gz;downloadfilename=rosparam_1.9.41.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9539b0fbb6e50d44a6038d2f4d57d67b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "49a6e4c5d8607bebf3b995fe2b4f2105898ebbac04e542008e953baa0892b255"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/ros_comm-release-release-rosparam-1.9.41"
+
+DEPENDS = "catkin-native"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/*"
+
+inherit distutils cmake pythonnative
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+  "
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+