(In reply to Chris Wilson from comment #3)
> The autotools build doesn't have this problem because in there intel-gpu-top
> is not linked against libigt.la, as nothing outside of tests/ should be. It
> looks like a bit of carelessness introduced the extra deps when writing the
> meson.build.

Almost all the installed tools link it:

$ for i in intel*; do echo $i; readelf -d $i|grep libigt; done
/opt/install/bin/intel_aubdump
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_audio_dump
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_backlight
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_bios_dumper
/opt/install/bin/intel_display_crc
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_display_poller
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_dp_compliance
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_dump_decode
/opt/install/bin/intel_dump_gpu
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_error2aub
/opt/install/bin/intel_error_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_firmware_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_forcewaked
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_framebuffer_dump
/opt/install/bin/intel_gem_info
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel-gen4asm
/opt/install/bin/intel-gen4disasm
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_abrt
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_frequency
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_time
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gpu_top
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gtt
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_guc_logger
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_gvtg_test
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_infoframes
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_l3_parity
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_lid
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_opregion_decode
/opt/install/bin/intel_panel_fitter
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_perf_counters
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_reg
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_reg_checker
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_residency
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_sanitize_gpu
readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/opt/install/bin/intel_stepping
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_vbt_decode
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]
/opt/install/bin/intel_watermark
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libigt.so]