`actions/checkout@v4` is a JavaScript action — it expects `node` on
PATH in the runner image. Gitea Actions (and local `act`) running
against `ubuntu:24.04` had neither node nor git pre-installed, so
checkout failed with:
❌ Failure - Main actions/checkout@v4
exitcode '127': command not found
The pre-step now installs nodejs + git + ca-certificates from apt
before checkout runs. The rest of the C++ toolchain installs in a
second step after the source tree is on disk.
Doesn't affect GitHub-hosted runners (their images already have node);
doesn't change build behaviour either.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
raphael
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