JDK-8284772: 8u GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

[gnu-andrew]

Major versions of GCC often cause problems with OpenJDK. Fedora's eager adoption of them means we often encounter these early. JDK-8282231 is just the latest example from the introduction of GCC 12.

However, the GHA workflow in OpenJDK doesn't just depend on a major version of GCC - which is actually contained in the Ubuntu package name of gcc-9 itself - but the full revision number, even down to local packaging changes.

I believe this is overkill and leads to valuable time being wasted on issues like JDK-8283778 where the GCC version itself didn't change at all, just the Ubuntu version suffix.

Rather than maintain this for 8u, I suggest we just depend on gcc-9 which is already a pretty modern version for 8u. I have yet to see an issue be specific to a minor GCC version bump, whereas the current setup is pretty much guaranteed to mean further fixes to the GitHub workflow every time the Ubuntu packager produces a new build.

Note that the x86-32 Linux build already uses just gcc-9-multilib which is why it hasn't been broken by the latest GCC update.

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• JDK-8284772: 8u GHA: Use GCC Major Version Dependencies Only

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• Sergey Bylokhov (@mrserb - Reviewer)

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[RealCLanger]

I would really love to see this type of change be done in jdk head and be backported to each active update release 😄

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[gnu-andrew]

Thanks @mrserb. I've flagged this for 8u approval.

[gnu-andrew]

I see jdk8u-fix-yes.

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[openjdk]

Going to push as commit 62defc3.
Since your change was applied there have been 26 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 65c4a5d: Merge
• cc541e9: Added tag jdk8u332-b09 for changeset 37aca7715d13
• 3d2fe9b: 8284936: Fix Java 7 bootstrap breakage due to use of Arrays.stream
• c7a735d: Added tag jdk8u332-b08 for changeset 95b31159fdfd
• d0b8929: 8284920: Incorrect Token type causes XPath expression to return empty result
• f1a7de1: Added tag jdk8u332-b07 for changeset 6d526dbc3432
• 6a6f2c2: 8284548: Invalid XPath expression causes StringIndexOutOfBoundsException
• 1feff78: 8281388: Change wrapping of EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo
• 28bdf44: 8282300: Throws NamingException instead of InvalidNameException after JDK-8278972
• 718c8a1: 8278972: Improve URL supports
• ... and 16 more: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-dev/compare/3647d987abad91eceef72900c71f8f4f55c8e92f...master

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