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Fix various issues with msys2

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        I encountered a bunch of issues when running with msys2 on Windows (but one of them could have happened on cygwin as well).

        * 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.

        * 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.

        * 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.

        * 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.)

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