revise meson notes in README

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# Building from source
libvips uses the [Meson build system](https://mesonbuild.com), version 0.56 or
later. The build system also needs `ninja`.
later, with [ninja](https://ninja-build.org).
To compile, libvips must have `build-essential`, `pkg-config`,
`libglib2.0-dev`, `libexpat1-dev`. See the **Dependencies** section below
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- Check the output of `meson setup` carefully and make sure it found
everything you wanted it to find.
- Use flags like `-Dnsgif=false` to turn options on and off, see
`meson_options.txt` for a list of all the options libvips supports.
- Use `--buildtype=release` for a release build.
- You might need `--libdir=lib` on Debian if you don't want the arch name in
the library.
- Add flags like `-Dnsgif=false` to turn options on and off, see
`meson_options.txt` for a list of all the build options libvips supports.
- Add `--buildtype=release` for a release (optimised) build.
- You might need to add `--libdir=lib` on Debian if you don't want the arch
name in the library path.
- Use `--default-library=static` for a static build.
- Use `ninja test` to run the tests.
- There's a more comprehensive test suite you can run with `pytest`.