atk fails to (cross-)compile

[nagisa]

Describe the bug

$ nix build -L -f '<nixpkgs>' pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.atk
<snip>
atk> Configuring config.h using configuration
atk> atk/meson.build:161: WARNING: Keyword argument "requires" defined multiple times.
atk> WARNING: This will be an error in future Meson releases.
atk> Configuring atkversion.h using configuration
atk> Found pkg-config: /nix/store/nc3ivxhlqyj2alck8p47srvwzzgkbh2i-pkg-config-0.29.2/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
atk> WARNING: Could not detect glib version, assuming 2.54. You may get build errors if your glib is older.
atk> atk/meson.build:138:2: ERROR: dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 not found:
atk> Package gobject-introspection-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
atk> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-introspection-1.0.pc'
atk> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
atk> No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found
atk> A full log can be found at /build/atk-2.36.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
builder for '/nix/store/3ar1252miryga64ryy113axsnrlcaw1n-atk-2.36.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.drv' failed with exit code 1; last 10 log lines:
  WARNING: Could not detect glib version, assuming 2.54. You may get build errors if your glib is older.

  atk/meson.build:138:2: ERROR: dependency gobject-introspection-1.0 not found:
  Package gobject-introspection-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
  Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gobject-introspection-1.0.pc'
  to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
  No package 'gobject-introspection-1.0' found


  A full log can be found at /build/atk-2.36.0/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
[0 built (1 failed), 0.0 MiB DL]
error: build of '/nix/store/3ar1252miryga64ryy113axsnrlcaw1n-atk-2.36.0-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.drv' failed

I think this issue may be stemming from the wrong buildInput vs nativeBuildInput usage.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. nix build -L -f '<nixpkgs>' pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.atk

Expected behavior

Running the command above should work and produce the output as if it was built on an aarch64 host.

Additional context

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Metadata

 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 5.6.13, NixOS, 20.09pre225898.7319061eef4 (Nightingale)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.3.4`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-20.09pre225898.7319061eef4"`
 - channels(nagisa): `""`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos`

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[nagisa]

Have a fix for this, but cannot test its efficacy because another dependency does not build #88961

[matthewbauer]

I think #88222 may fix part of this.

[stale]

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

[nagisa]

Bad bot, go away.

[adisbladis]

I was just hit by this one too.

@Ericson2314 Do you think #88222 would fix this?

[Mindavi]

Fixed by #123923 (but that does disable introspection).