RFR: 8300099: Configuration fails to auto-detect build user through $USER in dockers

[Jie Fu]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 13:22:12 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <ihse at openjdk.org> wrote:

> To be clear: If you are missing both $USER and `whoami`, and are not explicitly setting a user name, configure should fail. But if you are missing this and are using `--with-build-user`, then it succeeds.

Yes, it behaves like this.
I verified it in our dockers.

Thanks @magicus for your review.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11983