--- pango-1.48.11.old/utils/meson.build
+++ pango-1.48.11/utils/meson.build
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@
                           '-DPACKAGE_VERSION="@0@"'.format(meson.project_version()),
                         ])
 
-help2man = find_program('help2man', required: false)
+help2man = find_program('no-such-program', required: false)
+
 # help2man has to run pango-view to generate the man page, which it can't do if
 # we're cross building. We also can't tell help2man what exe wrapper to use.
 if help2man.found() and not meson.is_cross_build()