From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from am1outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (am1ehsobe003.messaging.microsoft.com [213.199.154.206]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EE4EE00294 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:10:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail90-am1-R.bigfish.com (10.3.201.226) by AM1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com (10.3.204.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.225.23; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:19 +0000 Received: from mail90-am1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail90-am1-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446B9C0318 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:160.33.194.229; KIP:(null); UIP:(null); IPV:NLI; H:usculsndmail02v.am.sony.com; RD:mail.sonyusa.com; EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -4 X-BigFish: VPS-4(zzbb2dI98dI9371I1432Izz1de0h1202h1e76h1d1ah1d2ahzz8275bhz2fh2a8h668h839h93fhd25hf0ah1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1441h1504h1537h153bh162dh1631h1758h1765h1155h) Received-SPF: pass (mail90-am1: domain of am.sony.com designates 160.33.194.229 as permitted sender) client-ip=160.33.194.229; envelope-from=tim.bird@am.sony.com; helo=usculsndmail02v.am.sony.com ; .am.sony.com ; Received: from mail90-am1 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail90-am1 (MessageSwitch) id 1355523017878380_4296; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AM1EHSMHS006.bigfish.com (unknown [10.3.201.251]) by mail90-am1.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE8FB2E0059 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from usculsndmail02v.am.sony.com (160.33.194.229) by AM1EHSMHS006.bigfish.com (10.3.207.106) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.225.23; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:17 +0000 Received: from usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com (usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com [146.215.230.103]) by usculsndmail02v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBEMAFjZ012283 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:16 GMT Received: from mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (mail4.bc.in.sel.sony.com [43.130.1.112]) by usculsndmail12v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id qBEMAEBT010660 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:15 GMT Received: from [43.135.148.222] ([43.135.148.222]) by mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id qBEMAE9O013173 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:14 GMT Message-ID: <50CBA44C.4030009@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:12:28 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <50CB8173.4030801@am.sony.com> <50CB9004.60908@windriver.com> In-Reply-To: <50CB9004.60908@windriver.com> X-OriginatorOrg: am.sony.com Subject: Re: What is GMAE? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 22:10:21 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/14/2012 12:45 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > On 12/14/12 1:46 PM, Burton, Ross wrote: >> On 14 December 2012 19:43, Tim Bird 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 Aha. Thanks very much. Is this the preferred way to get a toolchain out of yocto? That's exactly what I'm working on at the moment (well, after fixing up some toolchain build issues I've encountered after messing around a bit with the toolchain recipes...;-) -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment =============================