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meson: add option extra_library_paths

Tom Schoonjans requested to merge tschoonj/gobject-introspection:extra_library_paths into main

This patch adds an option extra_library_paths to the build, allowing users to inject additional paths that will be used to search for shared libraries at run-time.

This is particularly useful whenever the libs are not installed in default locations such as /usr/local/lib and /usr/lib, as is the case for Homebrew, when installed on a macOS Silicon machine. Setting environment variables such as DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH or DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH instead has been observed to lead to strange conflicts and segfaults and is not considered a suitable alternative.

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