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diff --git a/meson/docs/markdown/Reproducible-builds.md b/meson/docs/markdown/Reproducible-builds.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1e00feae8 --- /dev/null +++ b/meson/docs/markdown/Reproducible-builds.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +# Reproducible builds + +A reproducible build means the following (as quoted from [the +reproducible builds project site](https://reproducible-builds.org/)): + +> Reproducible builds are a set of software development practices that + create a verifiable path from human readable source code to the + binary code used by computers. + +Roughly what this means is that if two different people compile the +project from source, their outputs are bitwise identical to each +other. This allows people to verify that binaries downloadable from +the net actually come from the corresponding sources and have not, for +example, had malware added to them. + +Meson aims to support reproducible builds out of the box with zero +additional work (assuming the rest of the build environment is set up +for reproducibility). If you ever find a case where this is not +happening, it is a bug. Please file an issue with as much information +as possible and we'll get it fixed. |