catkin_make fails due to package.xml

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Unable to make, error given is:

The specified base path "/home/deansu/quad_controller" contains a package but "catkin_make" must be invoked in the root of workspace

Tried moving it and CMakelists.txt into the quadcontroller package, result is this error message:

CMake Error at /opt/ros/melodic/share/catkin/cmake/safe_execute_process.cmake:11 (message):

execute_process(/home/deansu/RoboND-Controls-Lab-0.0.2/quad_controller/build/catkin_generated/env_cached.sh
"/usr/bin/python2"
"/opt/ros/melodic/share/catkin/cmake/interrogate_setup_dot_py.py"
"quad_controller"
"/home/deansu/RoboND-Controls-Lab-0.0.2/quad_controller/src/setup.py"
"/home/deansu/RoboND-Controls-Lab-0.0.2/quad_controller/build/catkin_generated/setup_py_interrogation.cmake")
returned error code 1
Call Stack (most recent call first):
/opt/ros/melodic/share/catkin/cmake/catkin_python_setup.cmake:46 (safe_execute_process)
CMakeLists.txt:27 (catkin_python_setup)