[Newbie question] Strange errors trying to build the JDK

[Kim Barrett]

> On Sep 5, 2018, at 5:07 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> We do set SHELL to bash for make, so it *should* be running command lines using bash.

Verifying that was why I made this suggestion:

  In your build directory, in ./configure-support/config.log, search for
  the line starting with "SHELL=“.

to make sure configure found bash and is arranging for SHELL to be set appropriately.