The goal is to build a Kicad nightly release and run it on an OS X computer. Since the Kicad build appears to work best on Linux, I am using a virtual machine.
VM software is VirtualBox 4.3.28 https://www.virtualbox.org The guest OS is Desktop Ubuntu 14.04.2 amd64 http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/ There are performance problems with VirtualBox, so I am trying these same instructions again with VMWare Fusion.