Ubuntu 22.04, GNU C++ 13.1.0 removed from image 20240514.2.1

[marcalff]

Description

This is a regression, GCC 13.1.0 was removed.

See commit:

• 072fc82

Platforms affected

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions - Standard Runners
• GitHub Actions - Larger Runners

Runner images affected

• Ubuntu 20.04
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Ubuntu 24.04
• macOS 11
• macOS 12
• macOS 13
• macOS 13 Arm64
• macOS 14
• macOS 14 Arm64
• Windows Server 2019
• Windows Server 2022

Image version and build link

Image: ubuntu-22.04
Version: 20240514.2.0

Is it regression?

Build succeeds with:

  Image: ubuntu-22.04
  Version: 20240422.1.0

Expected behavior

GNU C++ 13.1.0 available

Actual behavior

GNU C++ 13.1.0 was available before, and was removed.

Repro steps

CI build break in opentelemetry-cpp

https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp/actions/runs/9108384703/job/25039040061?pr=2669#logs

CMake Error at /usr/local/share/cmake-3.29/Modules/CMakeDetermineCCompiler.cmake:49 (message):
  Could not find compiler set in environment variable CC:

  /usr/bin/gcc-13.

[erik-bershel]

Hey @marcalff!

It's an expected behaviour. We removed external PPA with GCC-9 and GCC-13 from the image. See there: #9679
You have two options:

• to use beta image Ubuntu-24.04
• to install GCC 13 in runtime

It will take about three minutes:

          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test -y
          sudo apt-get update -y
          sudo apt-get install gcc-13

[marcalff]

Hi @erik-bershel

Thanks for the quick reply.

I am willing to accept there is a good reason for this, but calling this "expected behavior" is another story.

Now looking to upgrade our CI to use Ubuntu-24.04 then.

[hartwork]

@actions I've been quite happy with most of GitHub Actions so far but dropping GCC 13 from ubuntu-22.04 images is breaking API contracts, breaking existing CI across the board — were you really not aware of the consequences? None of these runs were suppose to fail in the first place…

• https://github.com/Libvisual/libvisual/actions/runs/9122421421/job/25083192547
• https://github.com/hartwork/antijack/actions/runs/9122426949/job/25083206150
• https://github.com/cpptest/cpptest/actions/runs/9122348253/job/25083012085
• https://github.com/rpodgorny/unionfs-fuse/actions/runs/9108374360/job/25039401128
• https://github.com/tenox7/ttyplot/actions/runs/9122370330/job/25083067838
• https://github.com/j6t/kdbg/actions/runs/9122404935/job/25083152246

…and now I'm forced to deal with that change in time or every new push and pull request will be red — ouch!

Please think again next time you're breaking CI for everyone, thank you.

CC @rpodgorny @kaixiong @hannob