JavaFX9 on Debian Wheezy (was Re: InternalError on Class.getPackage())

[Chris Newland]

Just to confirm JavaFX from the Jigsaw b83 works fine with Debian 8 (Jessie):

ldd -v /home/chris/jdk1.9.0/lib/amd64/libglass.so

Version information:
/home/chris/jdk1.9.0/lib/amd64/libglass.so:
  libgcc_s.so.1 (GCC_3.0) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
  libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.14) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.2.5) => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
  libstdc++.so.6 (CXXABI_1.3) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
  libstdc++.so.6 (GLIBCXX_3.4) => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6

root at jessie:/home/chris# /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u1) stable release version 2.19,
by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.8.4.
Compiled on a Linux 3.16.7 system on 2015-08-30.
Available extensions:
	crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
	GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
	Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
	BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC
For bug reporting instructions, please see:
<http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>.

Cheers,

Chris

On Wed, October 21, 2015 16:11, Kevin Rushforth wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>
> Thanks for the info. And sorry about the misleading error message. The
> latest bits (whenever they show up in an EA build) will at least give you a
> correct error message about not being able to load the .so file.
>
> If you run "ldd -v libglass.so" I suspect it will show the missing
> dependency.
>
>> GNU C Library (Debian EGLIBC 2.13-38+deb7u8) stable release version
>> 2.13,
>>
>
> This would likely be the problem then. We require GBLIC 2.14 or later.
>
>
> -- Kevin