On Thu, 18 Aug 2022 22:22:36 GMT, Kevin Rushforth <k...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Use the system version of `ant` on macOS platforms rather than downloading it 
> from apache.org.
> 
> As noted in the bug report, we are seeing frequent GitHub Actions (GHA) 
> failures on macOS due to a timeout while attempting to download apache ant 
> 1.10.5.
> 
> The JavaFX build uses `ant` to build the apps (so `gradle apps` requires it). 
> The installed version of ant on the macOS 11 systems that we use is ant 
> 1.10.12, which works fine to build the apps. Given that the GHA builds are 
> just a sanity test used as a help to reviewers and contributors, and that we 
> already relax the requirement to specify the exact versions for a few other 
> platform tools, there is no real downside to doing this.
> 
> This PR only touches the GHA build script for the macOS job, so the GHA test 
> run is sufficient to test it.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: cedc17cc
Author:    Kevin Rushforth <k...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/commit/cedc17cc26bb0ad3e2d0693bd174f118ad5f0b82
Stats:     16 lines in 1 file changed: 5 ins; 0 del; 11 mod

8292549: GitHub actions: intermittent build failure on macOS while downloading 
ant

Reviewed-by: angorya, arapte

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/879

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