Build Error: stdlib.h: no such file or directory

[ben-greenberg]

I ran into this strange build issue where the packages are unable to find stdlib.h. I found some discussion on another ROS issue that suggested omitting the SYSTEM from the target_include_directories calls. This seems to fix the issue for me. Not sure if its a bad idea to merge it into master.

https://github.com/ros-industrial-consortium/tesseract_ros/blob/4c5cbdb2938dafd96c050c74b5501a3e7c52fd13/tesseract_plugins/CMakeLists.txt#L38

https://github.com/bulwahn/image_common/commit/31baf37689faa1d8b5d1f73d9847b757bd7085b2

Errors     << tesseract_monitoring:make /home/ros-industrial/workspaces/proactive_ws/logs/tesseract_monitoring/build.make.000.log                                                                         
In file included from /usr/include/c++/9/ext/string_conversions.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/basic_string.h:6493,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/string:55,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/locale_classes.h:40,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/ios_base.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/ios:42,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/istream:38,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/sstream:38,
                 from /opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/console.h:38,
                 from /home/ros-industrial/workspaces/proactive_ws/src/tesseract_ros/tesseract_monitoring/src/environment_monitor_interface.cpp:28:
/usr/include/c++/9/cstdlib:75:15: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
   75 | #include_next <stdlib.h>
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment_interface.dir/build.make:63: CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment_interface.dir/src/environment_monitor_interface.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:73: CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment_interface.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from /usr/include/c++/9/ext/string_conversions.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/basic_string.h:6493,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/string:55,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/locale_classes.h:40,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/ios_base.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/ios:42,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/istream:38,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/sstream:38,
                 from /opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/console.h:38,
                 from /home/ros-industrial/workspaces/proactive_ws/src/tesseract_ros/tesseract_monitoring/src/environment_monitor.cpp:39:
/usr/include/c++/9/cstdlib:75:15: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
   75 | #include_next <stdlib.h>
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
In file included from /usr/include/c++/9/ext/string_conversions.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/basic_string.h:6493,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/string:55,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/locale_classes.h:40,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/bits/ios_base.h:41,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/ios:42,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/istream:38,
                 from /usr/include/c++/9/sstream:38,
                 from /opt/ros/noetic/include/ros/console.h:38,
                 from /home/ros-industrial/workspaces/proactive_ws/src/tesseract_ros/tesseract_monitoring/src/current_state_monitor.cpp:39:
/usr/include/c++/9/cstdlib:75:15: fatal error: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
   75 | #include_next <stdlib.h>
      |               ^~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment.dir/build.make:76: CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment.dir/src/current_state_monitor.cpp.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment.dir/build.make:63: CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment.dir/src/environment_monitor.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:184: CMakeFiles/tesseract_monitoring_environment.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:141: all] Error 2

[Levi-Armstrong]

@ben-greenberg Is this still an issue?

[Levi-Armstrong]

Reopen if still an issue

[DavidMerzJr]

@marip8 @marrts @Levi-Armstrong

@collinthornton is experiencing this issue as well. We have a relatively recent Tesseract build working on Ubuntu 18.04. When trying to build that same workspace in Noetic, tesseract_rosutils and tesseract_monitoring are both failing. Ben's action fixes this in our case as well. Was the underlying issue here ever solved?

[Levi-Armstrong]

For those having this issue, if you search your system for this file where is it located?

[collinthornton]

The source file for tesseract_rosutils is located in ~/projects/wkspc/src/tesseract_deps/tesseract_ros/tesseract_rosutils/CMakeLists.tx.

Same problem occurs with tesseract_monitoring.

We're using v0.5.1 of tesseract_ros

[Levi-Armstrong]

I should have been more specific. Interested in the location of this file stdlib.h.

[collinthornton]

[Levi-Armstrong]

I searched the internet a little and it suggest that this is an environment issues since the file is provided by the standard and should always be found.

[collinthornton]

Can you link to the post you're referencing?

More than 90 other packages were built successfully. If it's an environment issue, it appears to be related unique expectations emplaced by tesseract.

[Levi-Armstrong]

https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2020/04/msg00021.html