Geographiclib cannot be located on ROS Jazzy

[Timple]

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Description

Geographiclib cannot be located

Expected behavior

Compilation succeeds

Actual behavior

63.08 Starting >>> lanelet2_projection
64.45 --- stderr: lanelet2_projection
64.45 CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
64.45   Could NOT find GeographicLib (missing: GeographicLib_LIBRARIES)
64.45 Call Stack (most recent call first):
64.45   /usr/share/cmake-3.28/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
64.45   /opt/ros/jazzy/share/mrt_cmake_modules/cmake/Modules/FindGeographicLib.cmake:16 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
64.45   /ws/install/lanelet2_core/share/lanelet2_core/cmake/lanelet2_coreAutoDepsConfig.cmake:198 (find_package)
64.45   /opt/ros/jazzy/share/mrt_cmake_modules/cmake/Modules/FindAutoDeps.cmake:253 (_find_dep)
64.45   CMakeLists.txt:21 (find_package)

Steps to reproduce

Dockerfile:

FROM ros:jazzy
SHELL [ "/bin/bash", "-c" ]
RUN apt-get update -qq && apt-get install -qqy python3-colcon-core
RUN mkdir -p /ws/src
WORKDIR /ws
RUN git clone https://github.com/autowarefoundation/autoware_msgs /ws/src/autoware_msgs
RUN git clone https://github.com/fzi-forschungszentrum-informatik/lanelet2 /ws/src/lanelet2
RUN git clone https://github.com/autowarefoundation/autoware_lanelet2_extension /ws/src/autoware_lanelet2_extension
RUN rosdep update && rosdep install --from-paths src --ignore-src -y
RUN source /opt/ros/jazzy/setup.bash && colcon build --packages-up-to autoware_lanelet2_extension

Versions

Latest

Possible causes

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Additional context

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[wagler]

It looks like they changed the lanelet2_extension/CMakeLists.txt file now, so that it doesn't look for GeographicLib.
However, the version of autoware_lanelet2_extension that had this issue is still floating around, so I'll answer here.

Problem
The issue is that GeographicLib package on Ubuntu 24.04 (used for Jazzy) is installed as geographiclib, not GeographicLib.
Confirm this by running pkg-config --libs GeographicLib and pkg-config --libs geographiclib. You'll see the first one reports an error, while the second one shows -lGeographicLib.

Fix
Go into lanelet2_extension/CMakeLists.txt and replace these lines:

find_path(GeographicLib_INCLUDE_DIR GeographicLib/Config.h
  PATH_SUFFIXES GeographicLib
)
set(GeographicLib_INCLUDE_DIRS ${GeographicLib_INCLUDE_DIR})

find_library(GeographicLib_LIBRARIES
  NAMES Geographic
) 

with this instead:
pkg_check_modules(GeographicLib REQUIRED geographiclib)