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meson configure: ERROR: Running ['/usr/bin/nasm', '--version'] failed

On Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) meson configure fails with error:

Program nasm found: YES (/usr/bin/nasm)

meson.build:345:4: ERROR: Running ['/usr/bin/nasm', '--version'] failed

The full meson log shows:

Running command: /usr/bin/nasm --version
--- stdout ---

--- stderr ---
nasm: error: unrecognised option `--version'
nasm: error: no input file specified
type `nasm -h' for help

Xenial only provides nasm version 2.11.08. It appears this version of nasm does not have the --version option, rather it only provides -v option.

Fails since commit 536ff477 (!621 (merged)):

commit 536ff4776fa424ee24f374b7e0461cba232923c6
Author: Vivia Nikolaidou <vivia@ahiru.eu>
Date:   Tue Jun 16 11:52:38 2020 +0300

    deinterlace: Add yadif ASM optimisations
    
    Measured to be about 3.4x faster than C
    
    Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-good/-/merge_requests/621>