There is an updated pull request by ndowens against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/ndowens/void-packages babl
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/26833

babl: update to 0.1.82
Add patch to allow gir during cross-build
@Gottox I tested this update against build of gegl-devel and it built fine even during cross-build.

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/26833.patch is attached