Ensure that icub-firmware gets updated by the update-latest-releases GitHub Action

Author: traversaro

.ci/all-options-enabled-cache.cmake

@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ set(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_TELEOPERATION ON CACHE BOOL "")
 set(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_EVENT_DRIVEN ON CACHE BOOL "")
 set(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_GRASPING ON CACHE BOOL "")
 
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+# Internal profile
+set(ROBOTOLOGY_INTERNAL_CLONE_ALL_REPOS_FOR_UPDATE ON CACHE BOOL "")
+# all-options-enabled-cache.cmake is usd by the update-latest-releases action,
+# that requires repos to be cloned in a non-shallow way. So here we override
+# also the shallow options for the repos that have shallow enabled
+set(icub-firmware-build_SHALLOW ON CACHE BOOL "")

cmake/Buildicub-firmware.cmake

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+
+include(YCMEPHelper)
+include(FindOrBuildPackage)
+
+ycm_ep_helper(icub-firmware TYPE GIT
+              STYLE GITHUB
+              REPOSITORY robotology/icub-firmware.git
+              COMPONENT iCub
+              FOLDER src
+              # Just some dummy commands that exists on all operating systems
+              # as we do not actually want to build anything for this repo,
+              # just to clone it
+              CONFIGURE_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --version
+              BUILD_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --version
+              INSTALL_COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --version
+)

cmake/RobotologySuperbuildLogic.cmake

@@ -173,3 +173,9 @@ if(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_R1_ROBOT)
   find_or_build_package(navigation)
   find_or_build_package(cer)
 endif()
+
+# Dummy option used to only clone repos to update them 
+# via update-latest-releases.yml GitHub Action
+if(ROBOTOLOGY_INTERNAL_CLONE_ALL_REPOS_FOR_UPDATE)
+  find_or_build_package(icub-firmware)
+endif()

cmake/RobotologySuperbuildOptions.cmake

@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@ option(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_ICUB_BASIC_DEMOS "Enable compilation of software necess
 option(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_HUMAN_DYNAMICS "Enable compilation of software for human dynamics estimation." FALSE)
 option(ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_GRASPING "Enable compilation of software for grasping." FALSE)
 
+# This is just a private undocumented option to download repos that are tracked in LatestReleases.yaml,
+# but they are not actually build by the superbuild
+option(ROBOTOLOGY_INTERNAL_CLONE_ALL_REPOS_FOR_UPDATE "(Internal) Clone all repos for automatic version update." FALSE)
+mark_as_advanced(ROBOTOLOGY_INTERNAL_CLONE_ALL_REPOS_FOR_UPDATE)
+
 include(CMakeDependentOption)
 
 cmake_dependent_option(ROBOTOLOGY_USES_CFW2CAN "Enable compilation of software that runs on the head of the iCub and depends on CFW2CAN." FALSE "ROBOTOLOGY_ENABLE_ICUB_HEAD" FALSE)