[CI] Build failures with ABSEIL 20240116 and CMAKE 3.30

[marcalff]

CI started to fail for this build:

CI / CMake test (with abseil) (pull_request) 

The failure is in:

./ci/install_abseil.sh

Failure:

-- Configuring done (0.5s)
CMake Error at CMake/AbseilHelpers.cmake:317 (target_link_libraries):
  The link interface of target "test_allocator" contains:

    GTest::gmock

  but the target was not found.  Possible reasons include:

    * There is a typo in the target name.
    * A find_package call is missing for an IMPORTED target.
    * An ALIAS target is missing.

Call Stack (most recent call first):
  absl/container/CMakeLists.txt:206 (absl_cc_library)


CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
-- Generating done (0.2s)
Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

To investigate, I suspect a regression caused by the new image Version: 20240708.1.0:

Current runner version: '2.317.0'
Operating System
  Ubuntu
  20.04.6
  LTS
Runner Image
  Image: ubuntu-20.04
  Version: 20240708.1.0

Previous runs that builds properly:

Current runner version: '2.317.0'
Operating System
  Ubuntu
  20.04.6
  LTS
Runner Image
  Image: ubuntu-20.04
  Version: 20240701.1.0

See related:

• Ubuntu 20.04 (20240708) Image Update actions/runner-images#10191

To investigate, CMake was upgraded.

[marcalff]

Note, github action documents Image Version: 20240708.1.1

There is no trace of Image Version: 20240708.1.0, which is executed by the runner.

[ghelyar]

I had the same problem and came across this when searching for answers.

It seems to be a problem with abseil 20240116.2 (current release) or earlier and CMake 3.30.0, but the master branch of abseil works with CMake 3.30.0, and the 20240116.2 version of abseil works with CMake 3.29.6, so one option would be to pin CMake to 3.29.6 until the next abseil release.

[marcalff]

Thanks @ghelyar

[marcalff]

Further research points to this:

• Avoid export internal target in non-test builds abseil/abseil-cpp#1536

[malff@malff-desktop abseil-cpp]$ pwd
/data/malff/CODE/MY_GITHUB/abseil-cpp
[malff@malff-desktop abseil-cpp]$ git show 779a3565a
commit 779a3565ac6c5b69dd1ab9183e500a27633117d5
Author: Derek Mauro <dmauro@google.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 30 10:13:25 2024 -0800

    Avoid export of testonly target absl::test_allocator in CMake builds
    
    Closes #1536
    
    PiperOrigin-RevId: 602764437
    Change-Id: Ia5c20a3874262a2ddb8797f608af17d7e86dd6d6

diff --git a/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt b/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt
index 449a2cad..ee9ca9c3 100644
--- a/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/absl/container/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ absl_cc_library(
   DEPS
     absl::config
     GTest::gmock
+  TESTONLY
 )
 
 absl_cc_test(