aws-genomics-workflows VS changed-files

There are a lot of tools built with C/C++ using glibc shared libraries. The AWS CLI v2 is one of these tools. It is common for workflow engines running on AWS to bind mount the AWS CLI from the host instance into the container so that it is available for interacting with other AWS services like staging data from Amazon S3. Challenges arise when a tooling container is based on an image without glibc shared libraries as is the case with ultra-minimal base images like alpine and busybox. You can still use these ultra-minimal images, but you need to take extra steps to ensure that glibc shared libraries are available. For example, the AWS CLI v2 is distributed with the shared libraries it needs, and to make it work on an alpine based container, you can modify the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in the container environment to point to where these shared libraries are installed.

We need to add two additional steps. The first one is to retrieve all new files, and the second one is to run the enhanced config only on the new files. In this example the third-party GitHub Action called changed-files is used to obtain the new files. In the GitHub Marketplace for Actions, there is a considerable number of similar actions with similar functionality. You can choose the one that suits you best, as the functionality is more or less the same for all of them.

I determined this after dozens of attempts working with the other GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files which feeds a list of modified files to clang-format-lint.

GitHub actions has actions that do similar, I’ve used this one before with great success: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files

You could also clean up your changed files job by using this (https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files) or something similar. That would at least make it easier to understand what it's supposed to be doing. You can use it to get the directories containing any changed package.json files. Then use that output as as a matrix input.

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