Workaround for this issue:
https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5/issues/4932

--- meson-1.6.0/mesonbuild/dependencies/hdf5.py.orig
+++ meson-1.6.0/mesonbuild/dependencies/hdf5.py
@@ -121,6 +121,8 @@
         # We first need to call the tool with -c to get the compile arguments
         # and then without -c to get the link arguments.
         args = self.get_config_value(['-show', '-c'], 'args')[1:]
+        if language == 'cpp':
+            args += ['-I/usr/include/hdf5']
         args += self.get_config_value(['-show', '-noshlib' if self.static else '-shlib'], 'args')[1:]
         found = False
         for arg in args: