From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.windriver.com (mail.windriver.com [147.11.1.11]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A9BE003DA for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id qBF0o3vv002632 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:50:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from msp-dhcp56.wrs.com (172.25.34.56) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.2.318.4; Fri, 14 Dec 2012 16:50:03 -0800 Message-ID: <50CBC93C.2030802@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:50:04 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <50CB8173.4030801@am.sony.com> <50CB9004.60908@windriver.com> <50CBA44C.4030009@am.sony.com> In-Reply-To: <50CBA44C.4030009@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: Sat, 15 Dec 2012 00:50:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/14/12 4:12 PM, Tim Bird wrote: > 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...;-) I don't know if it's the preferred "Yocto Project" way.. but it's the only way I do it. The code was implemented in the middle of the 1.3 process and does work in 1.3. (However multilib support may not be there. There are a series of patches pending for master that do enable the multilib support as part of the rpm/smart work.) --Mark > -- Tim > > > ============================= > Tim Bird > Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation > Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment > ============================= > > _______________________________________________ > yocto mailing list > yocto@yoctoproject.org > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >