On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:28:54 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> MSYS2 should be more appropriately installed into the runner's temporary >> directory rather than inside the newly checked out repository containing all >> the JDK's source code, as doing so may interfere with the build process and >> cause weird corner cases in the submitted actions workflow. On windows, the >> bash it uses is also not run properly, which we should address > > Julian Waters has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Move shell env call to build-windows.yml Regarding the tar issue: It happens in the post steps, when GHA does the caching. So I believe caching is broken. Somehow some msys2 libraries conflict with git's cygwin version of tar. I guess the fix would be to find a way to update the PATH to exclude msys2 again after our work is done and before the caching post steps run... ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11782
