Fix build with Python 3.8 by also checking for python-3.X-embed.pc. Since
Python 3.8 the normal checks don't include the Python libraries anymore and
linking of the gst-python module would fail.

See also https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5629
Fixes https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/issues/28

Patch based on upstream commit:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/-/commit/10707f437f2fc3632067c6a0efa4432f7ebaf362

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 5f13b48..d7c7e66 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -23,7 +23,17 @@ pygobject_dep = dependency('pygobject-3.0', fallback: ['pygobject', 'pygobject_d
 
 pymod = import('python')
 python = pymod.find_installation(get_option('python'))
-python_dep = python.dependency(required : true)
+pythonver = python.language_version()
+if pythonver.version_compare('<3.0')
+   error('Python2 is not supported anymore, please port your code to python3 (@0@ specified)'.format(python.language_version()))
+endif
+
+# Workaround for https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/5629
+# https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-python/issues/28
+python_dep = dependency('python-@0@-embed'.format(pythonver), version: '>=3', required: false)
+if not python_dep.found()
+  python_dep = python.dependency(required : true)
+endif
 
 python_abi_flags = python.get_variable('ABIFLAGS', '')
 pylib_loc = get_option('libpython-dir')
-- 
2.26.2