7130404: [macosx] "os.arch" value should be "x86_64" for compatibility with Apple JDK6

[Alan Bateman]

On 19/04/2012 18:17, James Melvin wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> Nothing is broken... yet. The change to os.name string compares was on
> the advice of Mike Swingler from Apple. They may be changing the name to
> just "OS X" at some point and this change was in preparation for that
> potential change. This was also pushed to 7uX earlier. The JDK 8 change
> is a forward port of the same. The change also affected RE build and
> promote scripts so the integration order and process was somewhat out of
> the ordinary.
>
> - Jim
Thanks Jim, and I see the reply from Mike Swingler too.

On 7u then I just checked jdk7u/jdk7u-dev and several tests are using 
startsWith("Mac OS") like we had in 8 so maybe it's not all pushed to 7u 
yet.

-Alan.