Some food for thought: The old autotools build did not have this problem since it: - was creating a static libigt library - yet ^^ would lead to slightly longer build times and overall larger bundle - ^^ would only pull the required dependencies into the linking process For reference: $ objdump -x /usr/bin/intel_gpu_top | grep -w NEEDED NEEDED libpthread.so.0 NEEDED libc.so.6 If it were me I would: - static link - drop all the extra rpath from the meson build - if size is an issue - enable LTO