RFR: 8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

[Erik Joelsson]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 13:35:18 GMT, Volker Simonis <simonis at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Maybe we could use [devkits](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/doc/building.md#cross-compiling-the-easy-way-with-openjdk-devkits) to pin the compiler version? I'm not sure how feasible that is in the GHA context. It might have a negative performance impact?

That would be preferable to me, but the main problem I see is hosting of the devkits. I can't publish such binaries. My understanding is that OpenJDK doesn't have the legal framework for hosting binaries publicly. Building them dynamically for each GHA run is definitely not feasible.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15374#issuecomment-1688613327