true/false vs. yes/no

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Thu Oct 4 21:43:33 PDT 2012


Just got bitten by the fact that the --enable-jfr flag takes the values 
yes or no when passed to configure, but the ENABLE_JFR variable gets set 
to true or false.

Is there a reason for this inconsistency (is it normal for configure 
based systems)?

David



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