diff --git a/test cases/1 trivial/meson.build b/test cases/1 trivial/meson.build
index 34264c59e..44bc48630 100644
--- a/test cases/1 trivial/meson.build	
+++ b/test cases/1 trivial/meson.build	
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
+# Comment on the first line
 project('trivial test', 'c')
-
+#this is a comment
 sources = 'trivial.c'
 
 exe = executable('trivialprog', sources : sources)
 
-add_test('runtest', exe)
+add_test('runtest', exe) # This is a comment
diff --git a/test cases/30 pipeline/meson.build b/test cases/30 pipeline/meson.build
index de613bc20..6bc2a734b 100644
--- a/test cases/30 pipeline/meson.build	
+++ b/test cases/30 pipeline/meson.build	
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ e1 = executable('srcgen', 'srcgen.c')
 
 gen = generator(e1, \
  output_name  : '@BASENAME@.c', \
- arguments : ['@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@'])
+ arguments : ['@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@']) # comment
 
 generated = gen.process('input_src.dat')