tce-load -i compiletc meson exiv214-dev vala-dev gobject-introspection-dev py3.6gobject-dev

wget https://download.gnome.org/sources/gexiv2/0.14/gexiv2-0.14.0.tar.xz

cd gexiv2-0.14.0

mkdir build
cd build

CC="gcc -flto -mtune=generic -Os -pipe" CXX="g++ -flto -mtune=generic -Os -pipe" meson --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --buildtype=plain

[-fno-exceptions fails]

ninja [0m 10.32s]
sudo ninja install

gexiv2 0.14.0

  User defined options
    buildtype    : plain
    localstatedir: /var
    prefix       : /usr/local