JH_SETUPENVIRONMENT(1)

💖 JH_SETUPENVIRONMENT — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk, this page is for jh_setupenvironment(1), a lil javahelper cutie, and yes it comes from the Javahelper manual 💅

✨ NAME ✨

jh_setupenvironment — gets a build environment all cute and ready so you can compile an eclipse feature 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

jh_setupenvironment [debhelper options] [--pde-build-dir=dir]
[copy [...]]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so jh_setupenvironment is a javahelper program, and what it does is handle creating an environment for building an eclipse feature. that's literally its whole job. main character energy, but make it makefiles 💅

big important thing tho: it does not set up an orbit dir. nope, not its business. if you want that, use jh_generateorbitdir instead, bestie, don't come for this one 🫶

what it will do is copy files into the environment dir — the ones you list in debian/eclipse.environment, plus the ones you hand it on the command line. and here's the lil default that always gets people: if you give it no files on the command line and the environment file isn't around (or it's there but empty), it just defaults to "org.eclipse.*". slay, it guessed for you ✨

📁 FILES 📁

• debian/eclipse.environment — a list of file- and directory glob patterns to copy into the build environment. that's it, that's the file, write your globs in it and go 🌈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --pde-build-dir=dir — tells it where the environment should be placed, or where it already is. the dir is the spot 💖
• --clean — pass this and jh_setupenvironment will clean up the build environment. real talk tho: when it's cleaning, it will not record itself in the debhelper log — and that's on purpose, because otherwise dh would get confused when it uses the log to trace where it was. we're doing dh a favour here, no cap 😭

🌟 EXAMPLE 🌟

jh_setupenvironment org.eclipse.* debian/*.properties

this will clone all the files and folders starting with "org.eclipse." plus all the property files sitting in the debian-folder, and put them all into the environment. ate, no crumbs 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• debhelper(7)
• this program is a part of javahelper and uses debhelper as its backend, iykyk
• there are also tutorials in /usr/share/doc/javahelper — go read them, they're giving study buddy 📚

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> — icon, legend, the moment 💜

⭐ COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE ⭐

Copyright 2010 by Niels Thykier

This tool is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of GNU GPL 2.

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bestie quick recap before you go: it builds the eclipse feature environment, it does not do the orbit dir (that's jh_generateorbitdir), it reads debian/eclipse.environment, it falls back to "org.eclipse.*", it copies your stuff in, and --clean quietly cleans without touching the debhelper log. that's the whole vibe check ✅

k so that's the page, mwah 💋 this was version 0.82 from 2026-05-17 of the Javahelper manual, and if you made it to the end of this you are genuinely the bestie of all time, periodt 🎀✨