[OTR-dev] Reproducible builds of pidgin-otr for Windows

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:42:28PM -0400, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> Thanks to Lunar and dkg at the Internet Freedom Festival for showing me
> a bunch of cool tools (including diffoscope -- try it!) to help make
> reproducible builds.  (If you don't know what there are or why they're
> important, please see https://reproducible-builds.org/ .)
> 
> OK, I've got pidgin-otr (and its dependencies) to a place where I can
> build it on two different machines and get identical .exe (the
> installer) and .zip files out.  Now I'd like to see if others can get
> the same binaries as well.

We've had one non-reproduction reported.  It turns out you have to have
the "bison" package installed, or else the gettext dependency configures
itself differently.  Joy.

So apt-get install bison before doing the test.  After doing that, the
reproduction was indeed successful.  More data, please!

Thanks,

   - Ian