linuxdeploy auto-walks every binary in the staged AppDir with ldd to
bundle their shared-library deps. That fights jpackage's self-contained
output on two axes and aborts the createReleaseAppImage task before any
AppImage is produced:
- The bundled JRE puts libjvm.so at usr/lib/runtime/lib/server/, while
its sibling libs (libmanagement.so, libawt_xawt.so, libfontmanager.so
and others in usr/lib/runtime/lib/) have RPATH=$ORIGIN. ldd cannot
resolve libjvm.so from those libs without help, so linuxdeploy errors:
ERROR: Could not find dependency: libjvm.so
ERROR: Failed to deploy dependencies for existing files
- The bundled libvlc plugins under usr/lib/app/resources/vlc/ are
UPX-compressed by the vlc-setup plugin. patchelf cannot read their
section headers, so linuxdeploy aborts:
ERROR: Call to patchelf failed:
patchelf: no section headers. The input file is probably a
statically linked, self-decompressing binary
- Even after working around libjvm.so via LD_LIBRARY_PATH, several VLC
libs have RUNPATH pointing at the wrong directory, so ldd fails on
libva.so.2 / libvlccore.so.9 next.
This is why v1.09.2 shipped .deb + .rpm from the linux leg but no
.AppImage and no linux .tar.gz from the linux-portable leg — the gradle
step failed on linuxdeploy, so the subsequent "Build portable archives"
step never ran.
Swap to appimagetool, which only embeds the AppDir as-is into a
SquashFS-backed, runtime-prepended AppImage and never touches the
contents. jpackage already bundles a complete, self-contained app —
we don't need linuxdeploy's dep-discovery. AppRun continues to handle
LD_LIBRARY_PATH at launch.
Verified locally on ubuntu-24.04: a fresh
:desktopApp:createReleaseAppImage now produces a valid 254 MB
Amethyst-1.09.2-x86_64.AppImage in ~30 s on top of an up-to-date
createReleaseDistributable.
Side changes:
- Workflow installs desktop-file-utils (appimagetool 1.9.0 calls
desktop-file-validate on the .desktop entry).
- BUILDING.md updated with the new local-dev fetch command.
- .gitignore replaces the linuxdeploy paths with appimagetool's.
The AppImage build inputs (AppRun, .desktop entry, icon, and the
CI-fetched linuxdeploy binary) are consumed only by desktopApp's
createReleaseAppImage task. Co-locating them under
desktopApp/packaging/appimage/ removes the `../` path escape from the
build script and keeps all desktop packaging assets inside the module.
https://claude.ai/code/session_0137ULcfJkASmfmffFBdW8ac
Vitor Pamplona