gazebo_ros Compile Error

[DvinHartoonian]

When I run

catkin build

in my ROS workspace, I get the following error:

Errors     << gazebo_ros:make /home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/logs/gazebo_ros/build.make.014.log
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsdformat9.so.9.8.0', needed by '/home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/devel/.private/gazebo_ros/lib/libgazebo_ros_paths_plugin.so'. Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsdformat9.so.9.8.0', needed by '/home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/devel/.private/gazebo_ros/lib/libgazebo_ros_api_plugin.so'. Stop.
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from /home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/src/gazebo_ros_pkgs/gazebo_ros/src/gazebo_ros_api_plugin.cpp:23:
/usr/include/gazebo-11/gazebo/common/Events.hh:21:10: fatal error: sdf/sdf.hh: No such file or directory
   21 | #include <sdf/sdf.hh>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_api_plugin.dir/build.make:63: CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_api_plugin.dir/src/gazebo_ros_api_plugin.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:484: CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_api_plugin.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
In file included from /home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/src/gazebo_ros_pkgs/gazebo_ros/src/gazebo_ros_paths_plugin.cpp:23:
/usr/include/gazebo-11/gazebo/common/Plugin.hh:33:10: fatal error: sdf/sdf.hh: No such file or directory
   33 | #include <sdf/sdf.hh>
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_paths_plugin.dir/build.make:63: CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_paths_plugin.dir/src/gazebo_ros_paths_plugin.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:1441: CMakeFiles/gazebo_ros_paths_plugin.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:130: all] Error 2
cd /home/dvin/tiago_public_ws/build/gazebo_ros; catkin build --get-env gazebo_ros | catkin env -si  /usr/bin/make --jobserver-auth=3,4; cd -

I am running Ubuntu 20.04 and ROS 1 Noetic and this has started happening ever since the update to Noetic and Ubuntu on 17th January 2025.
I believe the compiler is trying to find the file libsdformat9.so.9.8.0 and it can't because in the latest version of Ubuntu 20.04, the file has been updated to libsdformat9.so.9.10.1.

Please confirm and please fix this issue.

[j-rivero]

If you clean the the workspace (particularly the build/ directory) and try again, does it work?

Otherwise, could you please tell detail here what steps can be done to reproduce the problem?

[DvinHartoonian]

I ran catkin clean and then ran catkin build after and it fixed my issue.

Thanks for your help!