CI: Run software tests on GHA/macOS/M1

[amotl]

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January 30, 2024

GitHub announced the launch of the new M1 macOS runner. It provides 3 vCPU, 7 GB RAM, and 14 GB of storage VM, and the latest Mac hardware Actions has to offer. The new runner operates exclusively on macOS 14 and to use it, simply update the runs-on key in your YAML workflow file to macos-14.

References

• https://github.blog/changelog/2024-01-30-github-actions-introducing-the-new-m1-macos-runner-available-to-open-source/
• https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/macos/macos-14-arm64-Readme.md
• Add macOS 14 (Sonoma) Runner Image actions/runner-images#7508
• GitHub Action: New M1 runner available to all plans, including open source 🚀 actions/runner-images#9254
• Use new macOS arm64 runner for arm tests containerbase/base#2084

[amotl]

Problem

line 1: pipx: command not found

Solution

Needs another patch to make it bootstrap. Thanks, @henryiii.

• Update/Add pipx to M1 runners actions/runner-images#9256

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[neumann-nico]

Problem

line 1: pipx: command not found

Solution

Needs another patch to make it bootstrap. Thanks, @henryiii.

• Update/Add pipx to M1 runners actions/runner-images#9256

Couldn't we install pipx as a workaround?
https://github.com/pypa/pipx?tab=readme-ov-file#on-macos

- name: Install pipx
  if: ${{ matrix.os == 'macos-14' }}
  run: |
    brew install pipx
    pipx ensurepath

[henryiii]

You can, not good for a general composite action (since it affects the environment), but fine for workflows.

[neumann-nico]

You can, not good for a general composite action (since it affects the environment), but fine for workflows.

Yes exactly. That should be fine for this particular workflow but not great as a general approach.

[gutzbenj]

@neumann-nico please go ahead and push the suggested change!