On Jun 2 2014, at 09:23 , David DeHaven <david.deha...@oracle.com> wrote:

> * Why remove MACOSX_VERSION_MIN=@MACOSX_VERSION_MIN@? I believe we still use 
> this in some closed makefiles. Or is the idea that we instead will force the 
> sdk name to 10.7? If so, then we need to still leave this in until every user 
> (RE) has switched properly.
> 
> I moved all that to closed, it's in the internal review for those changes. 
> The value is now set in custom-spec.gmk instead of spec.gmk. It was not used 
> anywhere in OpenJDK that I could find. When deploy/install get revamped we 
> can just remove it entirely, that'll be easier if it's in closed.
> 
> It's referenced in make/bsd/makefiles/gcc.make, but that entire block is 
> skipped if spec.gmk exists (confirmed by throwing garbage in there), and it 
> defaults to 10.7.0 anyways.

Many/most/some (?) Hotspot devs still typically build without configure so 
there is no spec.gmk for them.

Mike

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