The compact profiles jar creation logic relies on what seems to be undefined behavior in GNU make. Pattern rules are unreliable when the file names contain '$'. The specific construct used in CreateJars.gmk works with GNU make 3.81, but fails with version 4 or higher.

This was originally fixed in 8u60 in JDK-8067857. That change is quite big and not something we want to backport to 8u42. However, since then, GNU make 4 and higher have become quite common on Linux too, and not just in Cygwin where I believe this problem was first encountered. Because of this, I would like to extract just the fix for this, exactly as it was done in JDK-8067857. Here is the original change:

https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u-dev/commit/17421c860a6e71e14b0023e686b87c35b2049f69#diff-e580e7e55e76622c538ae8a1b55af984b3e12bba099e493582fff2925b9ae02aR314-R322