Please branch and build gtest in epel8. If you do not wish to maintain gtest in epel8, or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner, I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package (FAS principis); please add me through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gtest/adduser
The package I needed this for cannot be built in EPEL 8 so I no longer need this. You may close this if you wish.
Not needed at the moment