Changes to build for MacOS as non-root in GitHub Actions #56
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This makes several changes that allow us to build MacOS projects as non-root, which will be necessary for running in GitHub Actions.
A bit of cleanup to not chown everything
We will now build all MacOS versions on 15, targeting 13, so we only need a single binary for each arch.
Since GitHub actions runners already have brew installed (or we will be installing it ourselves for x86_64 on GHA), don't use the separate 'test' user. We also no longer need this user since we are fixing things to run as non-root.
Since MacOS hasn't been called OSX in quite some time, this changes things to generally use 'macos' in place of 'osx'. Also, we plan on building a single MacOS agent for each architecture, so we'll be using a platform string like macos-all-<arch>.
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Add a period between 'macos' and 'all' since we aren't using a number here and 'macosall' looks weird. Also adds the architecture.
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Building off the amazing work of @shaun-rutherford-blizzard in #46, this makes the necessary changes to build MacOS projects as non-root (but a user with sudo privs) so that we can build things in GitHub Actions. This also changes the naming of MacOS platform strings from
osx-tomacos-, and since we will be targeting all supported MacOS versions for a given architecture, there are some tweaks to support platforms ofmacos-all-<arch>.