shell fails to launch out of binary tarball

$ JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home ~/tmp/packaging_and_integration/hbase-install/bin/hbase shell
NameError: missing class name (`org.apache.hadoop.hbase.HColumnDescriptor')
           method_missing at org/jruby/javasupport/JavaPackage.java:259
  <module:HBaseConstants> at /Users/ndimiduk/tmp/packaging_and_integration/hbase-install/lib/ruby/hbase_constants.rb:42
                   <main> at /Users/ndimiduk/tmp/packaging_and_integration/hbase-install/lib/ruby/hbase_constants.rb:34
                  require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:956
                   (root) at uri:classloader:/META-INF/jruby.home/lib/ruby/stdlib/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:1
                   <main> at /Users/ndimiduk/tmp/packaging_and_integration/hbase-install/bin/../bin/hirb.rb:131