diff --git a/meta-gnome/classes/meson-exe-wrapper.bbclass b/meta-gnome/classes/meson-exe-wrapper.bbclass
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+#
+# 1) write out a wrapper script that can execute target binaries
+#
+# 2) add exe_wrapper line to the end of [binaries] section in the
+#    meson.cross file that meson.bbclass generated
+#
+setup_wrapper() {
+    if [ ! -e ${B}/wrapper ]; then
+        cat > ${B}/wrapper << EOF
+#!/bin/sh
+${STAGING_LIBDIR}/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 --library-path ${STAGING_LIBDIR} \$@
+EOF
+        chmod +x ${B}/wrapper
+    fi
+
+    if ! grep -q "^exe_wrapper" ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross; then
+        cat ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross | sed "/pkgconfig/ a\
+exe_wrapper = '${B}/wrapper'" > ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross.tmp
+        mv ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross.tmp ${WORKDIR}/meson.cross
+    fi
+}
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    setup_wrapper
+}