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Add build system documentation.

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@bradleysepos is already working on this.

Since Dec 14, 2017.

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Improvement

We used to have documentation about the build system itself in HandBrake's doc directory (see attached). It needs to be revised and integrated into the developer documentation here.

doc.zip

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