The pkg-config-native dependency is missing from the recipe, which causes it to fail during configure. This is in git master -0.15.bb.
I tried this and Could not reproduce any issue: $ bitbake -f -c cleansstate desktop-file-utils-native $ bitbake -f -c cleansstate pkg-config-native $ bitbake desktop-file-utils-native
It should have been pkgconfig-native in the earlier post. I also noticed that pkgconfig-native is getting built automatically when desktop-file-utils-native is built. So I don't see any issue here.
This bug does not exist on my side. If you still see the issue please reopen the bug.