RFR: 8282944: GHA: Add Alpine Linux x86_64 pre-integration check [v11]

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 09:44:04 GMT, George Adams <gdams at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adds Alpine build CI job to the GitHub actions matrix. Currently this only builds hotspot. I can add tests too if people think that would be useful but for now I've left it as just build.
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> George Adams has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - improve conditional logic
>  - try this

.github/workflows/main.yml line 84:

> 82: 
> 83:           # List of platforms to exclude by default
> 84:           EXCLUDED_PLATFORMS=("alpine-linux-x64")

I'm not to fond of declaring a list like this in the middle of a code body. Perhaps you can set it up as a non-required workflow input with alpine as the default value, declared next to the default list of platforms?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20577#discussion_r1721781401