diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 330abc91db2..02fee95980c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -8704,8 +8704,13 @@ let
       url = "mirror://cpan/authors/id/X/XA/XAOC/Glib-Object-Introspection-0.048.tar.gz";
       sha256 = "01dx5w6r4nl3rgnz7wvgvqfaa48xmzy90p95d5k6315q44610kx6";
     };
+    checkInputs = [ pkgs.cairo ];
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ pkgs.gobject-introspection Glib ];
     meta = {
+      broken = true; # TODO: tests failing because "failed to load libregress.so"
+      # see https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/68115
+      # and https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/68116
+      # adding pkgs.gnome3.gjs does not fix it
       description = "Dynamically create Perl language bindings";
       license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
     };