diff --git a/releng.control/ant.sh b/releng.control/ant.sh
index 45b66ed29b06d6f4ef73a310c894b913405204e6..a4cc44beacf0b3ac1995119ea493f8a4a58bc019 100644
--- a/releng.control/ant.sh
+++ b/releng.control/ant.sh
@@ -34,9 +34,7 @@ case "$javaversion" in
   *ppc*)  ibmjvm=true;;
 esac
 
-#values of the bootclasspath attribute used in ant javac calls.
-bootclasspath="$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jsse.jar"
-bootclasspath_15="$JAVA5_HOME/jre/lib/rt.jar"
+
 
 buildPaths="-DJ2SE-1.4=${bootclasspath} -DJ2SE-1.5=${bootclasspath_15}"
 
diff --git a/releng.control/commonVariations.sh b/releng.control/commonVariations.sh
index 9a5f6bff77e9b6324f31de0c93f1a8a77a694e60..4b801dee62f00ffe415a6bc40d94fc6d56c8a339 100644
--- a/releng.control/commonVariations.sh
+++ b/releng.control/commonVariations.sh
@@ -9,11 +9,30 @@ export BUILD_HOME=/shared/webtools
 export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:1.0
 export JAVA_4_DIR="IBMJava2-ppc-142"
 export JAVA_5_DIR="ibm-java2-ppc-50"
-export BUILD_INITIALIZED="true"
 
+# values of the bootclasspath attribute used in ant javac calls.
+# the names of these jars are VM vendor specific. the first set
+# below, commented out, are typical for sun VM's. The 
+# second set are for IBM's VM's ... which is what we use 
+# on the PPC machine, so we'll leave that as the defaults 
+# in this file. 
+
+#export bootclasspath="${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/jsse.jar"
+#export bootclasspath_15="${JAVA5_HOME}/jre/lib/rt.jar"
+
+export bootclasspath="${JAVA_HOME}/jre/lib/core.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ibmjsseprovider.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/xml.jar"
+export bootclasspath_15="${JAVA5_HOME}/jre/lib/core.jar:$JAVA5_HOME/jre/lib/vm.jar:$JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/xml.jar"
+
+export BUILD_INITIALIZED="true"
 
-echo "Project Home: ${PROJECT_HOME}"
-echo "Build Home: ${BUILD_HOME}"
-echo "DISPLAY: ${DISPLAY}"
-echo "JAVA_4_DIR: ${JAVA_4_DIR}"
-echo "JAVA_5_DIR: ${JAVA_5_DIR}"
+echo " "
+echo "    Project Home: ${PROJECT_HOME}"
+echo "    Build Home: ${BUILD_HOME}"
+echo "    DISPLAY: ${DISPLAY}"
+echo " "
+echo "    JAVA_4_DIR: ${JAVA_4_DIR}"
+echo "        ${bootclasspath}"
+echo " "
+echo "    JAVA_5_DIR: ${JAVA_5_DIR}"
+echo "        ${bootclasspath_15}"
+echo " "