protobuf 25.2 broken for cross compiles

[julianneswinoga]

A simple

project('my_project', 'cpp')

protoc = subproject('protobuf').get_variable('protoc')

while cross compiling, gives the error:

subprojects/protobuf-25.2/src/meson.build:29:18: ERROR: Tried to tied to mix a host machine library ("absl_base") with a build machine target "protoc-native" This is not possible in a cross build.

Full repository: julianneswinoga/meson_protobuf_bug
Full logs: meson-log.txt

[bgilbert]

It's not relevant to the actual bug here, but mesonbuild/meson#14097 cleans up the text of the error message.

[julianneswinoga]

I've found mesonbuild/meson/issues/11121
Even if meson doesn't fully support cross-compiled subprojects, does it really not have any way of specifying (in this case) that abseil-cpp should only use the build machine toolchain...?