From 733e73e1856c29bf910ff7ada99a91e3fcf9b2b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Oes <julian@oes.ch>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 14:48:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Tools: check for Java 8 on Linux

This allows us to print an error message instead of a weird Java failure
further down the road.

Better yet would be if this would take down everything, so a user does
not have to scroll up to read the message.
---
 Tools/jmavsim_run.sh | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Tools/jmavsim_run.sh b/Tools/jmavsim_run.sh
index 0bd68d5ebd..6c41609c78 100755
--- a/Tools/jmavsim_run.sh
+++ b/Tools/jmavsim_run.sh
@@ -66,6 +66,12 @@ if [ "$(uname)" == "Darwin" ]; then
         exit 1
     fi
     export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`
+elif [ "$(uname)" == "Linux" ]; then
+    if ! java -version 2>&1 | grep --quiet "1.8" ; then
+        echo "${bold}You need to use Java 8, for more info, see:${normal}"
+        echo "${bold}https://dev.px4.io/master/en/simulation/jmavsim.html#ubuntu${normal}"
+        exit 1
+    fi
 fi
 
 ant create_run_jar copy_res