[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

[Sergey Bylokhov]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2023 19:39:59 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> GHA is currently broken in 11u-dev as the referenced Ubuntu gcc package, `10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04`, is no longer available.
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> Rather than bumping this yet again, this PR suggests dropping the specific version as we did some time ago in 8u. The requirement still specifies a specific major version of GCC. It just means the dependency isn't broken every time Ubuntu bumps to a new minor release or even just makes a minor change to the package alone.
> 
> Note that the current setup does not guarantee sticking with an exact version of GCC anyway, because - as seen by the current GHA breakage - older versions get removed from the package repository. All we get from this exact version requirement is sporadic breakage. If we truly want a static version of GCC, we need to provide our own as we do with the JDK.

[build-cross-compile.yml](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev/blob/master/.github/workflows/build-cross-compile.yml#L38) should be updated as well?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/2087#issuecomment-1682932820