2.73.1: build fails because missing `gvdb`
Looks like something is wrong. Despite fact that in dist source tar ball is subprojects/gvdb/ subtree meson fails
+ /usr/bin/meson --buildtype=plain --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --includedir=/usr/include --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --localedir=/usr/share/locale --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --wrap-mode=nodownload --auto-features=enabled . x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu -D dtrace=true -D glib_assert=false -D glib_checks=true -D glib_debug=disabled -D gtk_doc=true -D installed_tests=true -D libmount=enabled -D man=true -D nls=enabled -D selinux=enabled -D systemtap=true -D xattr=true
The Meson build system
Version: 0.62.2
Source dir: /home/tkloczko/rpmbuild/BUILD/glib-2.73.1
Build dir: /home/tkloczko/rpmbuild/BUILD/glib-2.73.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
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Project name: glib
Project version: 2.73.1
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meson.build:2045:0: ERROR: Dependency "gvdb" not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
A full log can be found at /home/tkloczko/rpmbuild/BUILD/glib-2.73.1/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu/meson-logs/meson-log.txt