8378218: MSYS2 reports cygwin triplet causing bash configure failure

[tabata-d]

Hi all,

This pull request contains a backport of commit feecb042 from the openjdk/jdk repository.

The commit being backported was authored by Daishi Tabata on 20 Feb 2026 and was reviewed by Erik Joelsson.

Thanks!

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• JDK-8378218: MSYS2 reports cygwin triplet causing bash configure failure (Bug - P4 - Requested)

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