MacOS build tool selections for JDK8

[David DeHaven]

>> Does this imply the underlying version of macosx doesn't matter, as long as you're using Xcode 4.6.1 (or what ever we have standardized upon for JDK8)  with -mmacosx-version-min=10.7?
>> 
>> That would solve our new machines always having the latest macosx issue, that is as long as our instance of Xcode is supported.
> But what about the jdk 7? At least for now, if I build it in macosx 10.8, it does not work om macosx 10.7.(old build system)


Try this:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7

before running make, that's the same as providing -mmacosx-version-min=10.7 to gcc on the command line. The JDK7 build machines should continue using 10.7 unless OBS is modified to explicitly set that env variable.

-DrD-