On Mon, 9 Dec 2024, 20:04 Alexander Grund via Boost,
Dear maintainers,
I made a bunch of PRs to fix the Github Actions CI for almost 40 repositories. Opening a PR in GitHub is manual work while I was able to apply similar changes over all those repositories using a script which commits to a single branch (and hence PR) per repo. Hence the PRs contain a few related changes that in combination allow the CI to pass again.
To avoid repeating this in each PR I wanted to shortly explain the changes here:
1. macos-12 runners are dropped by github and jobs won't start anymore. at least macos-13 needs to be used
2. Ubuntu 23.* doesn't work anymore as e.g. some APT repositories don't exist anymore. Ubuntu 24.04 can be used instead 3. clang 17 (and partly 16) don't work in C++23/2b mode with the stdlibc++ (12) installed on ubuntu 24.04, clang 18+ and/or the other C++ standards can still be used 4. Support for Node 16 was recently fully dropped by Github Actions so the @v3 actions must be upgraded to @v4, which require Node 20. The workaround using $ACTIONS_ALLOW_USE_UNSECURE_NODE_VERSION has no effect anymore 5. The node 20 version available by default conflicts with the glibc version in the Ubuntu 16/18 container images used for testing older compilers.
I addressed all of them with last one being the major one: Installing a compatible version inside a custom image to be used instead doesn't work because GHA mounts the node 20 installation from the host os.
Does using ubuntu-latest as host OS and ubuntu 16.04 as container not work?