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add note about catkin version (#17)
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dirk-thomas committed Jun 1, 2018
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Build ROS 1 packages
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The process of building `ROS 1 <http://www.ros.org/>`_ packages is described in the `distro specific <http://wiki.ros.org/kinetic/Installation/Source>`_ building from source instructions.
The process of building `ROS 1 <http://www.ros.org/>`_ packages is described in the `distro specific <http://wiki.ros.org/melodic/Installation/Source>`_ building from source instructions.
Using ``colcon`` instead of the recommended tool ``catkin_make_isolated`` only changes a couple of the steps.

.. note::

``colcon-ros`` requires at least version 0.7.13 of ``catkin`` which provides a new CMake option the tool uses.

Instead of invoking ``catkin_make_isolated --install`` you can invoke ``colcon``.

.. code-block:: bash
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