diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/git-chain/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/git-chain/recipe.toml
index 2790169bc..4d6058053 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/git-chain/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/git-chain/recipe.toml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#TODO Not compiled or tested (after cargo update)
+#TODO compiled but not tested (after cargo update)
 [source]
 git = "https://github.com/dashed/git-chain"
 [build]
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk11-headless/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk11-headless/recipe.toml
index a7df77765..219b77555 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk11-headless/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk11-headless/recipe.toml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "fontconfig",
 ]
 script = """
+chmod a+x configure
 COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(
     --enable-headless-only=yes
 )
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk21-headless/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk21-headless/recipe.toml
index 160301304..bdeea3dd0 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk21-headless/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk21-headless/recipe.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #TODO build instructions - https://github.com/openjdk/jdk21u/blob/master/doc/building.md
-#TODO not compiled or tested
+#TODO can't find the configure script
 [source]
 git = "https://github.com/openjdk/jdk21u"
 rev = "060c4f7589e7f13febd402f4dac3320f4c032b08"
diff --git a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk8-headless/recipe.toml b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk8-headless/recipe.toml
index 9a8fb93a1..9261f81ea 100644
--- a/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk8-headless/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/wip/dev/openjdk8-headless/recipe.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #TODO build instructions - https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u/blob/master/doc/building.md
-#TODO not compiled or tested
-#TODO build it in headless mode
+#TODO require the headless option
 [source]
 git = "https://github.com/openjdk/jdk8u"
 rev = "9c9d6b267c41e4c713cacc41befb66007cdb2601"