Keep jdk11 GHA runners on macosx?

[Antonio Vieiro]

Hi all,

El 15/11/24 a las 13:41, Severin Gehwolf escribió:
> Just to clarify:
> 
> You are proposing to require macos-13 or better with XCode 14.3.1 or
> newer, for JDK 11u builds on macosx going forward?

Not really. The proposal is to add a configuration flag ("--with-xcode14" or similar) so that:

- Builds and tier-1 tests can be run in GHA: macos-13/XCode 14.3.1
   - By adding "-Wno-deprecated-declaration" to some .mk files to bypass the "sprintf" deprecation that is generating errors.
   - By adding "-Wno-deprecated-non-prototype" to some .mk files to bypass sending arguments to functions without protype (AWTlib), that are generating errors too.

If the "--with-xcode-14" configuration is _not_ present then builds are as usual, i.e., exising pipelines on macos-12 and earlier will run as usual.

> 
> If there is no way of building/running on older osx/xcode I guess there
> is no other choice but to set this as a requirement for building going
> forward?

The flag is of interest only for doing GHA builds on XCode 14, as imposed by the deprecation of macos-12 GHA runners.

So if you don't set the flag you can build as usual, on macos-12 and earlier, with older XCode versions.

> 
> It would be good to know what the community thinks.

Yep.

Cheers,
Antonio