building 7u on macosx

[David DeHaven]

>>>> Success.  I found this post from Arun Gupta:
>>>> https://blogs.oracle.com/arungupta/entry/build_open_jdk_7_on
>>>> 
>>>> which specifies this
>>>> 
>>>> make ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA=true
>>>> ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA=true ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v1.6`
>>>> HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`
>>>> 
>>>> rather than this
>>>> 
>>>> CPATH="/usr/X11/include" LANG=C make ALLOW_DOWNLOADS=true
>>>> ALT_BOOTDIR=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.7+` HOTSPOT_BUILD_JOBS=`sysctl
>>>> -n hw.ncpu`
>>>> 
>>>> at https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/MacOSXPort/Main
>>>> 
>>>> The differences are:
>>>> - At the front, remove:  CPATH="/usr/X11/include" LANG=C
>>>> - Add this:  SA_APPLE_BOOT_JAVA=true ALWAYS_PASS_TEST_GAMMA=true
>>> 
>>> You missed the v1.6 vs v1.7+ on the ALT_BOOTDIR setting. I suspect
>>> that is the real difference.
>> Thanks David, That makes sense.  What does -v do?  I didn't find a spec
>> describing it.  -Pete
> 
> I would assume it selects the version of the JDK to run. It's an Apple JDK, or perhaps an OS X software installation, option.

It's synonymous with java_version in applet tags:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/index-141751.html#JAVA_VERSION

-DrD-