willowgarage/catkin — Issue #43: empy scripts prefer system installed Python libraries instead of workspace
Author: kwc
Created: 2012-01-05 20:53:53+00:00
State: open

I pip installed genmsg and forgot to remove it before building with catkin. I got fairly opaque error messages from catkin/empy that turned out to be because it was using the pip version of genmsg. It seems that catkin should assert the primacy of its own Python path.