[jdk11u-dev] RFR: 8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only [v2]

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 00:19:57 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.
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>> 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.
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> Andrew John Hughes has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Fix specific version usage in cross compilation

I see `jdk11u-fix-yes`.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk11u-dev/pull/2087#issuecomment-1684223799