[jdk17u-dev] Integrated: 8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

[Andrew John Hughes]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:16:29 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

> GHA regularly breaks because we specify a very explicit GCC version, even down to the release versioning of the Ubuntu package.
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> Rather than bumping this yet again like https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u/commit/260f28761a87553fd634615df5ba3db5b76ae692, this PR suggests dropping the specific version as we did some time ago in 8u and I've also proposed to fix the same breakage in 11u (https://github.com/openjdk/jdk11u-dev/pull/2087). 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 recent 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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> ~~This is based on https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/1595 to allow https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/1672 to proceed.~~ This is now based on master and the change is in trunk.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 1d65a31d
Author:    Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/commit/1d65a31dd43f69599d05c34ca19c49e0caba504a
Stats:     22 lines in 3 files changed: 0 ins; 17 del; 5 mod

8284772: GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

Reviewed-by: shade
Backport-of: 62defc3dfc4b9ba5adfe3189f34fe8b3f59b94a0

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/1673