diff --git a/CONTENT b/CONTENT
index 11111e8..1ec44cd 100644
--- a/CONTENT
+++ b/CONTENT
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ CONTENT of the repository:
 * conf/layer.conf                                          configuration file for this layer
 * classes/catkin.bbclass                                   class for catkin-based packages
 * recipes-core/images                                      recipes of images for native compilation of ROS
-* recipes-devtools, recipes-support                        recipes of system prerequisites of ROS
+* recipes-devtools                                         recipes of system prerequisites of ROS
 * recipes-ros                                              recipes for cross-compiling ROS packages
-                                                  
+
diff --git a/README b/README
index a854889..f362b30 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ STATE OF THIS WORK:
   - Cross compilation of ROS-groovy (under development)
 
 INSTALLATION/SETUP:
-  The repository only contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the existing OpenEmbedded Core layer.
+  The repository only contains a layer for ROS that builds on top of the existing OpenEmbedded Core layer
+  and the meta-oe layer.
+
   Currently, I work with
-    * commit 2587a33134fde80dd1367629d9def45ac70256ee of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
+    * commit 395b90054eccddc1c9062a9a8657ed4482b7710a of https://github.com/openembedded/oe-core
+    * commit 2a5dea2399e2be5e5d964eda7465dcaf4c2e152b of https://github.com/openembedded/meta-oe
     * commit 324ed96e28ec31cff8cef1824d20d40f9a5d46ad of git://git.openembedded.org/bitbake in the bitbake directory
 
 
@@ -128,8 +131,5 @@ The log4cxx recipe originated from the recipe in the OpenEmbedded (Classic) Deve
 The core-image-ros-* recipes originated from the core-image-minimal recipe in OpenEmbedded Core
   (cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/tree/meta/recipes-core/images/core-image-minimal.bb)
   licensed with the MIT License.
-The libtinyxml recipe originated from the recipe in the OpenEmbedded meta layer
-  (cf. http://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/tree/meta-oe/recipes-support/libtinyxml)
-  licensed with the MIT License.
 
 The modified files are redistributed here under the same MIT License.
diff --git a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/enforce-use-stl.patch b/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/enforce-use-stl.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 88c962b..0000000
--- a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/enforce-use-stl.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-Description: TinyXml is built with TIXML_USE_STL, so we have to
- enforce it when the library is used.
-Author: Felix Geyer <debfx-pkg@fobos.de>
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-diff -Nur tinyxml-2.5.3/tinyxml.h tinyxml-2.5.3.patch/tinyxml.h
---- tinyxml-2.5.3/tinyxml.h	2007-05-07 00:41:23.000000000 +0200
-+++ tinyxml-2.5.3.patch/tinyxml.h	2009-07-08 22:32:03.000000000 +0200
-@@ -26,6 +26,10 @@
- #ifndef TINYXML_INCLUDED
- #define TINYXML_INCLUDED
- 
-+#ifndef TIXML_USE_STL
-+	#define TIXML_USE_STL
-+#endif
-+
- #ifdef _MSC_VER
- #pragma warning( push )
- #pragma warning( disable : 4530 )
diff --git a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/entity-encoding.patch b/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/entity-encoding.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b801506..0000000
--- a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml/entity-encoding.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-Description: TinyXML incorrectly encodes text element containing
- an ampersand followed by either x or #.
-
-Origin: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=3031828&group_id=13559&atid=313559
-
-Upstream-Status: Pending
-
-diff -u -r1.105 tinyxml.cpp
---- a/tinyxml.cpp
-+++ b/tinyxml.cpp
-@@ -57,30 +57,7 @@
- 	{
- 		unsigned char c = (unsigned char) str[i];
- 
--		if (    c == '&' 
--		     && i < ( (int)str.length() - 2 )
--			 && str[i+1] == '#'
--			 && str[i+2] == 'x' )
--		{
--			// Hexadecimal character reference.
--			// Pass through unchanged.
--			// &#xA9;	-- copyright symbol, for example.
--			//
--			// The -1 is a bug fix from Rob Laveaux. It keeps
--			// an overflow from happening if there is no ';'.
--			// There are actually 2 ways to exit this loop -
--			// while fails (error case) and break (semicolon found).
--			// However, there is no mechanism (currently) for
--			// this function to return an error.
--			while ( i<(int)str.length()-1 )
--			{
--				outString->append( str.c_str() + i, 1 );
--				++i;
--				if ( str[i] == ';' )
--					break;
--			}
--		}
--		else if ( c == '&' )
-+		if ( c == '&' )
- 		{
- 			outString->append( entity[0].str, entity[0].strLength );
- 			++i;
-diff -u -r1.89 xmltest.cpp
---- a/xmltest.cpp
-+++ b/xmltest.cpp
-@@ -1340,6 +1340,16 @@
- 		}*/
- 	}
- 
-+	#ifdef TIXML_USE_STL
-+	{
-+		TiXmlDocument xml;
-+		xml.Parse("<foo>foo&amp;#xa+bar</foo>");
-+		std::string str;
-+		str << xml;
-+		XmlTest( "Entity escaping", "<foo>foo&amp;#xa+bar</foo>", str.c_str() );
-+	}
-+	#endif
-+
- 	/*  1417717 experiment
- 	{
- 		TiXmlDocument xml;
diff --git a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml_2.6.2.bb b/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml_2.6.2.bb
deleted file mode 100644
index 8670fac..0000000
--- a/recipes-support/libtinyxml/libtinyxml_2.6.2.bb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-# (c) Copyright 2012  Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. 
-
-DESCRIPTION = "a simple, small, minimal, C++ XML parser"
-HOMEPAGE = "http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tinyxml"
-LICENSE = "Zlib"
-LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://readme.txt;md5=f8f366f3370dda889f60faa7db162cf4"
-SECTION = "libs"
-
-PR = "r5"
-
-SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/tinyxml/tinyxml_${@'${PV}'.replace('.', '_')}.tar.gz \
-           file://enforce-use-stl.patch \
-           file://entity-encoding.patch"
-SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c1b864c96804a10526540c664ade67f0"
-SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "15bdfdcec58a7da30adc87ac2b078e4417dbe5392f3afb719f9ba6d062645593"
-
-S = "${WORKDIR}/tinyxml"
-
-EXTRA_CXXFLAGS = "-I. -fPIC"
-
-do_compile() {
-    ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${EXTRA_CXXFLAGS} -c -o tinyxml.o tinyxml.cpp
-    ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${EXTRA_CXXFLAGS} -c -o tinyxmlerror.o tinyxmlerror.cpp
-    ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} ${EXTRA_CXXFLAGS} -c -o tinyxmlparser.o tinyxmlparser.cpp
-    ${CXX} ${CXXFLAGS} \
-            -shared \
-            -Wl,-soname,libtinyxml.so.${PV} \
-            -o libtinyxml.so.${PV} \
-            ${LDFLAGS} \
-            tinyxml.o \
-            tinyxmlparser.o \
-            tinyxmlerror.o
-
-}
-
-do_install() {
-    install -d ${D}${libdir}
-    install -m 0755 ${S}/libtinyxml.so.${PV} ${D}${libdir}
-    ln -sf libtinyxml.so.${PV} ${D}${libdir}/libtinyxml.so
-
-    install -d ${D}${includedir}
-    install -m 0644 ${S}/tinyxml.h ${D}${includedir}
-}
-
-BBCLASSEXTEND += "native"