RFR: JDK-8231594: Configure fails on some Linux systems

[Martin Buchholz]

Looks good, ... although I question whether any Unix program other than the
shell itself should be trying to do tilde-path-expansion.
Consider fixing the code by deleting it.

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 3:42 PM Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com>
wrote:

> In my recent change JDK-8206125, I introduced a bash conditional that
> checks if a string starts with ~. That check seems to fail on some Linux
> systems unless the ~ is quoted.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231594
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~erikj/8231594/webrev.01
>
> /Erik
>
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