>> * 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.
So they weren't even using it, since MACOSX_VERSION_MIN was defined in spec.gmk. -DrD-
