Draft: contrib: prefer static linking of libraries found by Meson

For all libraries we build in contribs we want the static library version so our binaries can be distributed.

The --prefer-static option tries to use system libraries as static libraries when both variants are possible [1]. We don't want to have to distribute the dynamic libraries it may find during contrib builds.

[1] https://mesonbuild.com/Commands.html

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This is odd, it should be a static library...

Checking for function "iconv_open" : NO 
Library iconv found: NO
Checking for function "iconv_open" with dependency -liconv: NO (cached)

libplacebo/src/glsl/meson.build:19:2: ERROR: C++ prefer_static library 'glslang' not found

This should also be a static library...

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No ways. We want system-provided libraries linked dynamically by default.

There is a single case I can think of where we want that. And that's on Linux when building VLC distribution. In that case the contrib system is not used.

That's not true. Contribs work on Linux and they are used.

In fact the current contribs were literally created for Linux (which previous contribs didn't realmy work for).

I never said it doesn't work nor that it's not used. I said that's not what we want in the general case. I can always disable this for Linux.

In the general case, we want to keep the system default. This is obviously not Linux-specific.

And disabling this on Linux wouldn't work. You'd end up reproducing the exact problems that this MR is trying to paper over.

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