Actually I talked with Richard regarding retiring the toolchain targets 
(meta-toolchain and meta-toolchain-gmae) as Mark mentioned that now we can 
build a toolchain matching the image.  Also, we're continue improving 
adt-installer which also allows you to setup sysroot using the target image as 
well.  Richard's concern is there maybe some legacy user that preferred the 
toolchain target. With the latest changes in toolchain generation which really 
maps to target images, probably we should unplug to legacy ones to make the 
toolchain generation more streamline.  Thoughts or concerns?

Thanks,
Jessica

-----Original Message-----
From: yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-boun...@yoctoproject.org] On 
Behalf Of Mark Hatle
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 12:46 PM
To: yocto@yoctoproject.org
Subject: Re: [yocto] What is GMAE?

On 12/14/12 1:46 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 14 December 2012 19:43, Tim Bird <tim.b...@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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