user@system:~/gexiv2-0.11.0/build$ exiv2 --version

exiv2 0.27.1

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user@system:~/gexiv2-0.11.0/build$ meson --prefix=/usr ..

The Meson build system
Version: 0.49.0
Source dir: /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0
Build dir: /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0/build
Build type: native build
Project name: gexiv2
Project version: 0.11.0
Native C compiler: cc (gcc 8.3.0 "cc (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1) 8.3.0")
Native C++ compiler: c++ (gcc 8.3.0 "c++ (Ubuntu 8.3.0-6ubuntu1) 8.3.0")
Build machine cpu family: x86_64
Build machine cpu: x86_64
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.1)
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.13.4)
Dependency exiv2 found: NO (tried pkgconfig)

meson.build:13:0: ERROR:  Dependency "exiv2" not found, tried pkgconfig

A full log can be found at /home/user/gexiv2-0.11.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt