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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com> on 2003/02/11 17:51:26 UTC

Re: cvs commit: apr configure.in

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--On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:36 PM +0000 jorton@apache.org wrote:

> jorton      2003/02/11 07:36:56
>
>   Modified:    .        configure.in
>   Log:
>   Capitalize some "Posix"es and s/dnl/# a comment.

Why are you removing the dnl's?  Comments should only be dnl not #. 
Adding the #'s doesn't help anyone.  They'll just be added to the 
unintelligble cruft of configure.  -- justin

Re: cvs commit: apr configure.in

Posted by Joe Orton <jo...@manyfish.co.uk>.
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:51:26AM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
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> --On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:36 PM +0000 jorton@apache.org wrote:
> 
> >jorton      2003/02/11 07:36:56
> >
> >  Modified:    .        configure.in
> >  Log:
> >  Capitalize some "Posix"es and s/dnl/# a comment.
> 
> Why are you removing the dnl's?  Comments should only be dnl not #. 
> Adding the #'s doesn't help anyone.  They'll just be added to the 
> unintelligble cruft of configure.  -- justin

They can be useful when debugging the configure script, and help make it
a little bit intelligible ;)

joe

Re: cvs commit: apr configure.in

Posted by Aaron Bannert <aa...@clove.org>.
Sometimes it's useful to have comments in the configure cruft, but yeah
the dnl's should stay.

-aaron


On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 08:51  AM, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> --On Tuesday, February 11, 2003 3:36 PM +0000 jorton@apache.org wrote:
>
>> jorton      2003/02/11 07:36:56
>>
>>   Modified:    .        configure.in
>>   Log:
>>   Capitalize some "Posix"es and s/dnl/# a comment.
>
> Why are you removing the dnl's?  Comments should only be dnl not #. 
> Adding the #'s doesn't help anyone.  They'll just be added to the 
> unintelligble cruft of configure.  -- justin