Target "managed_transform_buffer" links to target "Boost::date_time" but the target was not found.

[cjmodi306]

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• I've read the contribution guidelines.
• I've searched other issues and no duplicate issues were found.
• I'm convinced that this is not my fault but a bug.

Description

Upon building the packet, colcon throws the following error:

Starting >>> managed_transform_buffer
--- stderr: managed_transform_buffer                         
CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_auto/cmake/ament_auto_add_library.cmake:66 (add_library):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer" links to target "Boost::date_time" but
  the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for an
  IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:17 (ament_auto_add_library)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_auto/cmake/ament_auto_add_library.cmake:66 (add_library):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer" links to target "Boost::date_time" but
  the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for an
  IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:17 (ament_auto_add_library)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_auto/cmake/ament_auto_add_library.cmake:66 (add_library):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer" links to target "Boost::date_time" but
  the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for an
  IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMakeLists.txt:17 (ament_auto_add_library)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:50 (add_executable):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer_test" links to target "Boost::date_time"
  but the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for
  an IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:37 (_ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest.cmake:68 (ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_ros/cmake/ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest.cmake:33 (ament_add_gtest)
  CMakeLists.txt:26 (ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:50 (add_executable):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer_test" links to target "Boost::date_time"
  but the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for
  an IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:37 (_ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest.cmake:68 (ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_ros/cmake/ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest.cmake:33 (ament_add_gtest)
  CMakeLists.txt:26 (ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest)


CMake Error at /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:50 (add_executable):
  Target "managed_transform_buffer_test" links to target "Boost::date_time"
  but the target was not found.  Perhaps a find_package() call is missing for
  an IMPORTED target, or an ALIAS target is missing?
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest_executable.cmake:37 (_ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_gtest/cmake/ament_add_gtest.cmake:68 (ament_add_gtest_executable)
  /opt/ros/humble/share/ament_cmake_ros/cmake/ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest.cmake:33 (ament_add_gtest)
  CMakeLists.txt:26 (ament_add_ros_isolated_gtest)


CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
---
Failed   <<< managed_transform_buffer [2.49s, exited with code 1]

Upon looking in the CMakeLists.txt and packages.xml, I realized that Boost was not linked to the package. I tried adding the following lines to package.xml and CMakelists.txt and it worked:

(packages.xml):
<build_depend>libboost-date-time-dev</build_depend>
<exec_depend>libboost-date-time-dev</exec_depend>

(CMakeLists.txt):
find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS date_time)

Expected behavior

Successful compilation.

Actual behavior

Error, see above.

Steps to reproduce

colcon build --cmake-args -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS=ON --packages-select managed_transform_buffer

Versions

• OS: Ubuntu 22.04
• ROS 2: Humble

Possible causes

Missing linking step in CMakeLists and dependency in packages.xml.

Additional context

No response

[amadeuszsz]

Hi @cjmodi306,
Thank you for reporting this issue and sorry for late response!

I can't reproduce this error. Could you please check this in clean environment, e.g. Autoware development image?
The root cause is somewhere else. I can only suspect that happened to you due to custom build of dependencies, e.g. rclcpp or libpcl. Or you use Clang maybe - there might be an issue due to conflict between CMake + Boost + Clang versions.

[cjmodi306]

I installed Autoware again from scratch. But the problem occurred again.
After doing some research, I am assuming it is conflict with the compiler. I realized that I have multiple versions of compilers.

ls /usr/bin/g++
g++     g++-10  g++-11  g++-12  g++-9   

This was the output. I don't know if this information helps you in anyway.

Also, could you mention the g++ version that you are using?

[amadeuszsz]

I installed Autoware again from scratch. But the problem occurred again. After doing some research, I am assuming it is conflict with the compiler. I realized that I have multiple versions of compilers.

ls /usr/bin/g++
g++     g++-10  g++-11  g++-12  g++-9   

This was the output. I don't know if this information helps you in anyway.

Also, could you mention the g++ version that you are using?

@cjmodi306
g++-11
I think the problem might also exist in your version of pcl_ros as managed_transform_buffer does not use directly Boost::date_time. What you can try:

• Make sure boost is installed global sudo apt install libboost1.74-dev.
• Check if adding autoware_package() at the beginning of CMakeLists.txt somehow fixes the issue.
• Make sure no other workspace is sourced, clone managed_transform_buffer to an empty workspace, update deps (sudo apt update && rosdep update && rosdep install --from-paths src -y) and try to build.