Colcon warning if a package doesn't install anything

[quarkytale]

A package not integrating any artifacts, makes the build system think there's a bug and it throws out a warning. It's usually ignored for packages not intended to be ever distributed.

colcon-cmake/colcon_cmake/task/cmake/build.py

Lines 115 to 117 in 20972f1

	logger.warning(
	"Could not run installation step for package '{pkg.name}' "
	"because it has no 'install' target".format_map(locals()))

But in some cases, like for a package whose entire purpose is to run tests and is only integrated when -DBUILD_TESTING=ON, the above assumption doesn't hold true.

If the warning is bothersome, brute force fixes (just for reference):

• Have the test package install some innocuous empty hello_world.txt file.
• Set "cmake-target": "all" in colcon.pkg will ensure when a specific target is specified, the install target is no longer added implicitly.

The short-term clean fix is to include the required artifacts will added when BUILD_TESTING is true and allowing the ament_package() call to happen even when its false, resulting in the package.xml getting installed. See test_rclcpp example.

if(BUILD_TESTING)
  ### code block
endif()

# TODO should not install anything
ament_package()

A more elegant but time consuming fix might be to add support for a field in colcon.pkg "ignore-no-install-target": true which does nothing but suppresses that message when there is no install target. Then give these packages a colcon.pkg file that's simply

{
    "ignore-no-install-target": true
}

This is an under-serviced scenario for both ament and colcon. The "no install target" warning message should not be disabled entirely. Possibly a new package type for test-only CMake projects could be introduced, but needs further discussion.