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

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2024 08:29:30 GMT, George Adams <gdams at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > @gdams are you planning to also fix this in 11u & 8u?
> 
> I've been speaking to @vieiro who is tackling 11u - albeit these changes are even more complex than 17u but I'm happy to help where possible.

For 11u I don't think we can do the google test upgrade since that would need all the type trait fixes (all the linked issues in [JDK-8299386](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8299386). We will have to find a more minimal solution there.

> 8u is a much harder one to fix, one thing I'd considered was bumping the CI to macos-12 (which is still in support) and has [xcode 13.x installed on it](https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-12-Readme.md#xcode). This would only be pushing the problem down the road for now but would at least get 8u green again. WDYT?

Yes, that sounds about right. That's enough change as it is. We need the lowest risk solution for that one, which means the fewest amount of changes/backports. On the plus side, gtest isn't needed for JDK 8 since it only got introduced in JDK 9 with: https://openjdk.org/jeps/281

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/2206#issuecomment-2217101961