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Build mpdecimal from source to workaround unreliable launchpad.net #149248

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19 changes: 13 additions & 6 deletions .github/workflows/posix-deps-apt.sh
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Expand Up @@ -26,9 +26,16 @@ apt-get -yq --no-install-recommends install \
xvfb \
zlib1g-dev

# Workaround missing libmpdec-dev on ubuntu 24.04:
# https://launchpad.net/~ondrej/+archive/ubuntu/php
# https://deb.sury.org/
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php
apt-get update
apt-get -yq --no-install-recommends install libmpdec-dev
# Workaround missing libmpdec-dev on ubuntu 24.04 by building mpdecimal
# from source. ppa:ondrej/php (launchpad.net) are unreliable
# (https://status.canonical.com) so fetch the tarball directly
# from the upstream host.
# https://www.bytereef.org/mpdecimal/
MPDECIMAL_VERSION=4.0.1
curl -fsSL "https://www.bytereef.org/software/mpdecimal/releases/mpdecimal-${MPDECIMAL_VERSION}.tar.gz" \
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(late to the party) this should probably checksum the downloaded archive before extracting

| tar -xz -C /tmp
(cd "/tmp/mpdecimal-${MPDECIMAL_VERSION}" \
&& ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
&& make -j"$(nproc)" \
&& make install)
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