[gnome-love] Compiling Gnome VTE. Got syntax error about VAPIGEN_CHECK(0.18)

[Robert J <historygnomestamp gmail com>]

I am running Fedora 20 lxde.

I am attempting to compile VTE vte-0.37.0.

I am getting these two error messages:
./configure: line 14983: syntax error near unexpected token `0.18'
./configure: line 14983: `VAPIGEN_CHECK(0.18)'

What do I do to fix this problem?

I've seen references to VAPIGEN_CHECK, but I do not know what it is.   I've done a search on VIPIGEN, no enlightenment followed.

found:
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-May/msg03654.html

I have vala installed.  Seems to be an ok version.

I made some changes to the autogen.sh
-- add path to glib
-- run aclocal.  got a warning message about the need to run aclocal.



me $  cat autogen.sh
#!/bin/sh -v
# Run this to generate all the initial makefiles, etc.
# modified 5-25-2014
set -e

srcdir=`dirname $0`
test -z "$srcdir" && srcdir=.

cd "$srcdir"
mkdir -p m4 >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/me/Downloads/glib-2.40.0
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH
echo $PKG_CONFIG_PATH

gtkdocize --copy --flavour no-tmpl
autoreconf --verbose --force --install
echo "Running aclocal..."
# added because of error message.
aclocal

intltoolize --force
cd -

test -n "$NOCONFIGURE" || "$srcdir/configure" "$@"
me $

I made some changes to the autogen.sh
-- add path to glib
-- run aclocal.  got a warning message about the need to run aclocal.

Here is what I did to start the compile.

./autogen.sh
... many lines clipped ...
checking for VTE... yes
checking for wint_t... yes
checking whether to install the glade catalogue... no
checking for gobject-introspection... yes
./configure: line 14983: syntax error near unexpected token `0.18'
./configure: line 14983: `VAPIGEN_CHECK(0.18)'


Here is an excerpt from configure:

# No automagic please!
if test -z "$enable_vala"; then
  enable_vala=yes
fi

VAPIGEN_CHECK(0.18)

# ****************
# Test Application
# ****************