configure: error: Library dvdread > 6.0.0 needed for dvdread was not found

git hash 4.0.0-dev-6229-g9868c4be built on arch linux a couple of weeks ago. the current version gives:

configure: error: Library dvdread > 6.0.0 needed for dvdread was not found

even if dvdread is installed:

[ ~]$ yay -Ss dvdrea
extra/libdvdread 6.0.0-1 (90.5 KiB 282.0 KiB) (Installed)

see also here for a reference, multiple users report this: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vlc-git