Testing on macos-latest fails with Java 8

[galtm]

The failure commented on in #1918 (comment) looks like actions/setup-java#625 .

Based on links from that issue 625 to other GitHub issues/PRs, I see two resolutions that different repos are using (at least temporarily):

A) Using zulu distribution instead of temurin for macOS
B) Requesting macos-13 instead of macos-latest

[galtm]

@cmarchand : Do you have any thoughts on the best solution for this repo?

For reference: List of distributions supported by setup-java

[galtm]

You asked:

Where is the script source for this build ?

This is the configuration file for the test workflow:

https://github.com/xspec/xspec/blob/master/.github/workflows/test.yml

[cmarchand]

There no JDK 8 available for MacOs ARM : https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/?version=8&os=mac&arch=arm&package=jdk

I don't know if it's new or not. Probably not.

And I'm not able to find if macos-latest runner is a Intel or an Arm.

We probably should add a uname -a in the build process, before installing Java, to check this. Maybe GitHub has changed its default infra recently...

[cmarchand]

Ok, it's now on M1, Arm. So yes, it's the same problem than actions/setup-java#625.

I'm reluctant to use an old MacOs OS version.

I'd prefer using either :

• Bell Liberica
  • it's coherent with this
• Azul Zulu

[galtm]

Your idea of sticking to macos-latest while picking a different distribution, with Bell Liberica as the first choice, sounds good to me. I can try that in the coming week (probably imitating the syntax in https://github.com/apache/logging-parent/pull/169/files except with liberica instead of zulu), but if you want to pursue this yourself, feel free.