[yocto] What is GMAE?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Dec 14 11:50:43 PST 2012


On Fri, 14 Dec 2012, Burton, Ross wrote:

> On 14 December 2012 19:43, Tim Bird <tim.bird at am.sony.com> wrote:
> > "If you need GMAE, you should use the bitbake meta-toolchain-gmae command. The resulting installation script when run will support such development. However, if you are not concerned with GMAE, you
> > can generate the toolchain installer using bitbake meta-toolchain."
> >
> > After googling a bit, I figured out that GMAE stands for Gnome Mobile and Embedded.
> >
> > It might be good to put this acronym somewhere in the manual.
> > (I'm still not sure if I need GMAE or not...)
>
> Basically, GMAE means GTK+ 2 and bits of the GNOME stack.
>
> A stealth plan of mine is to remove every trace of GMAE from Yocto.

  a good place to start would be to remove the "gmae" component from
the name of the toolchains themselves:

http://downloads.yoctoproject.org/releases/yocto/yocto-1.2/toolchain/x86-64/

rday

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