[yocto] What is GMAE?

[Mark Hatle]

On 12/14/12 1:46 PM, 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.
> It was an initiative Poky was involved with back in the OpenedHand
> days that didn't really take off, and we're still carrying pieces of
> it.

I get this question a lot.  With the ability (new in 1.3) to build an SDK based 
on the contents of any arbitrary image.. the meta-toolchain-gmae is simply not 
necessary.

bitbake -c populate_sdk <image recipe>

--Mark

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