Re: # or dnl for comments?

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dr. David Kirkby wrote:
>
> > I see a mix of # and 'dnl' to start comments. Why is this? The more 
> > common '#' seems most useful, but I guess there is a reason for using 
> > dnl.
>
> The 'dnl' variant ("delete to new-line") seems best when you don't want 
> the comment to appear in the configure script.
>
> Bob
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Thank you.