[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8331730: [8u] GHA: update sysroot for cross builds to Debian bullseye

[Zdenek Zambersky]

On Mon, 6 May 2024 15:19:46 GMT, Zdenek Zambersky <zzambers at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Updates GHA to use Debian `bullseye` for cross build sysroot. Motivation for this are broken builds on s390x and ppc64le in recent test runs. This is due to disappearance of s390x and ppc64le arches in [repos](http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/) of `buster` (currently used Debian). Not sure why arches disappeared, but turns out that `buster` soon reaches end of LTS support ([2024-06-30](https://wiki.debian.org/LTS)).
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> As Debian `bullseye` (next version) again has all aches in [its repos](http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/main/), update solves both issues. In newer JDKs, sysroot update to bullseye was included in [JDK-8293107](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8293107) (GHA: Bump to Ubuntu 22.04). I have tried Ubuntu update in GHA as well, but it failed to build on some platforms (aarch64, ppc64le)  with errors such as:
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> /home/runner/work/jdk8u-dev/jdk8u-dev/jdk/hotspot/src/share/vm/adlc/arena.cpp:82:19: error: ISO C++17 does not allow ‘register’ storage class specifier [-Werror=register]
>    82 |   register Chunk *k = _first;
>       |                   ^
> 
> Seems to be [JDK-8281096](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8281096)  (Flags introduced by configure script are not passed to ADLC build). So Ubuntu update is blocked by that (and there seem to be some complications there). That's why I would like to do this separately from Ubuntu upgrade.

> _Mailing list message from [Thorsten Glaser](mailto:t.glaser at qvest-digital.com) on [jdk8u-dev](mailto:jdk8u-dev at mail.openjdk.org):_
> 
> On Mon, 6 May 2024, Zdenek Zambersky wrote:
> 
> > Not sure why arches disappeared, but
> > turns out that `buster` soon reaches end of LTS support
> 
> LTS is not available for all architectures, ELTS for even less. (And backports are not even available for LTS.)

It is still strange that architectures were only removed from `buster` repo recently. (It has been in LTS for a long time)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/491#issuecomment-2098649280