CI improvements and workarounds #750
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Node.js 20 is not supported in older containers like ubuntu:18.04, but GitHub Actions nowawadays forces the use of Node.js 20, even if the action itself still specified Node.js 16 as the version to use. The result is that e.g. `actions/checkout@v3` fails in the containers, although it should not (because v3 is still specified Node.js 16). See <https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/> for more information on that forced Node.js version. Fortunately, there still is a workaround to restore the old behaviour, and that is to set a environment variable to allow older Node.js to be used in those actions, and that is what this change does.
The runner image for macOS 11 has been removed on 2024-06-28. See <https://github.blog/changelog/2024-05-20-actions-upcoming-changes-to-github-hosted-macos-runners/> for more information on that. So the easiest fix is probably just to move to the next newest version of macOS that is still avaiable for GHA.
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Description
This pull request attempts to fix two issues with the CI jobs:
Failure of container jobs
Node.js 20 is not supported in older containers like
ubuntu:18.04, but GitHub Actions nowawadays forces the use of Node.js 20, even if the action itself still specified Node.js 16 as the version to use. The result is that e.g.actions/checkout@v3fails in the containers, although it should not (because v3 is still specified Node.js 16). See https://github.blog/changelog/2024-03-07-github-actions-all-actions-will-run-on-node20-instead-of-node16-by-default/ for more information on that forced Node.js version. Fortunately, there still is a workaround to restore the old behaviour, and that is to set a environment variable to allow older Node.js to be used in those actions, and that is what the first commit does.However, this workaround may only work for a limited time, because Node.js 16 will most likely be removed in October 2024. Then we may have to figure out a different way to test older compilers.
macOS 11 no longer available
The runner image for macOS 11 has been removed on 2024-06-28. See https://github.blog/changelog/2024-05-20-actions-upcoming-changes-to-github-hosted-macos-runners/ for more information on that.
So the easiest fix is probably just to move to the next newest version of macOS that is still avaiable for GHA, and that is macOS 12.
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