| # 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. |