RFR: 8287724: Fix various issues with msys2

[Erik Joelsson]

On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 09:17:59 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I encountered a bunch of issues when running with msys2 on Windows (but one of them could have happened on cygwin as well).
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> * fixpath must set MSYS2_ARG_CONV_EXCL="*" before running cmd.exe to figure out the temp directory, or msys might interfere with the command line to cmd.
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> * Paths like "/c/s/source/jdk", meaning to point to "c:\s\source\jdk", would be interpreted by fixpath as "/cs:\source\jdk", since the leading "/c" would be considered a prefix. This is not a problem on cygwin, where the /cygpath prefix makes paths unambiguous. I countered this by checking if the file exists (as written, or just the basepath, or the first 3 parts of the path). If so, I treat it as a filename, rather than a prefix.
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> * Configure is supposed to handle windows-style input paths, but `--with-bootjdk=c:\java\jdk-17` or similar would break, since we started to look for files in that directory without having to normalized the path first.
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> * Finally, configure.guess sometimes reports msys as `mingw` and sometimes as `msys`, depending on the value of MSYSTEM. (And for some values, the old autoconf-configure.guess breaks -- I did not bother fixing this.)

Marked as reviewed by erikj (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8989