Review OSX universal mode patch

[Julien Ponge]

> Frankly, it seems a little silly to me to expect that anyone would
> even be capable of maintaining 32/universal OpenJDK builds for OS X
> unless you make the first step of making it *possible* to build
> 32/universal OpenJDK for OS X. Making them buildable seems like a
> first step, eh?
> 
> 

+1 
> * Is there community interest in having 32/universal build support in
> OpenJDK on OS X? I think the answer is obviously yes.
> * Has anyone stepped up to provide patches to make 32/universal builds
> possible on OS X? The answer is also yes.
> 
> 

Henri has done a fantastic job by making it possible to use Java 7 on the Mac, way before we could get any "official" pre-release of any sort. 
> * Does OpenJDK work in 32-bit or universal modes on OS X? "Works" is
> hard to answer definitively, without running the TCK, but *none* of
> Henri's builds (which you praised openly at FOSDEM, Dalibor) have run
> TCK either, right? So it "works" as well as any build of OpenJDK that
> hasn't run TCK, which is very likely *all* community builds in the
> wild.
> 
> 

Yes, I think most of us do not care about the build passing the TCK or not. We use such builds for development, hence "fresh" is better than "blessed".
> openjdk-osx-build is a valuable resource for any of us working on OS
> X, and it would be a terrible shame to lose it.
> 
> 

Unfortunately it seems like it has already been lost...

Cheers