[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8318039: GHA: Bump macOS and Xcode versions

[George Adams]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 22:06:14 GMT, George Adams <gdams at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Looks like it's failing with sprintf errors. I'll need to backport:
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>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8299635 and https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8299378
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>> @gdams do you plan to reopen this? Now the MacOS 11 runner is gone, adding this to have some MacOS build which we can then fix with follow-up backports would be better than no build at all.
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> yeah it would be good to get this backported. I think the issue was the complexity of the other xcode-related backports that needed to go in first so if people wanted to pick them up I'd encourage them to take a look

> > > @gdams do you plan to reopen this? Now the MacOS 11 runner is gone, adding this to have some MacOS build which we can then fix with follow-up backports would be better than no build at all.
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> > yeah it would be good to get this backported. I think the issue was the complexity of the other xcode-related backports that needed to go in first so if people wanted to pick them up I'd encourage them to take a look
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> Thanks. I'll have a look at #2663 but I think this may need to go in first now, because the Mac OS 11 runner is gone ([actions/runner-images#9255 (comment)](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/9255#issuecomment-2080437770)) and this is why the Mac tasks on that PR are still spinning.

I'd like to get https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/2661 and https://github.com/openjdk/jdk17u-dev/pull/2663 merged first and then I'll propose that we merge this one (with failing builds)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2206#issuecomment-2211007678