diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp.inc b/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp.inc
index bec06ecd69..be2983ffc4 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp.inc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 SECTION = "devel"
-DESCRIPTION = "GNU multiprecision arithmetic library"
+SUMMARY = "GNU multiprecision arithmetic library"
+DESCRIPTION = "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gmplib.org/"
 LICENSE = "GPLv3 LGPLv3"
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_4.2.1.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_4.2.1.bb
index 4da8381345..362aacf46c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_4.2.1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gmp/gmp_4.2.1.bb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+SUMMARY = "GNU multiprecision arithmetic library"
 DESCRIPTION = "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://gmplib.org/"
 BUGTRACKER = "http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-bugs"