hmm, good point.
chkconfig is a redhat-ism, it doesnt exist on most other platforms so this is not a good thing to use in a portable source build.
the prebuild instructions for java are wrong in build_cvs_howto.txt. they currently read:
mkdir Thirdparty/java
grab jdk-1_5_0_05-linux-i586.bin and install somewhere.
tar czf Thirdparty/java/jdk1.5.0_05.tgz
but this builds the tarballs wrong. even the install dir is unpredictable depending on the install method (in debian for instance, its /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun), so not reliable to change to the parent directory of the install dir before tarring. how about something like this:
mkdir Thirdparty/java
cd Thirdparty/java
cp -R ./jdk1.5.0_05
tar czf Thirdparty/java/jdk1.5.0_05.tgz jdk1.5.0_05 |