Problems building nautilus-2.16.3

[Andreas Büchel <andreas buechel gmx de>]

Hi all!

I'm new to this list. I have to admit, that I normally don't use GNOME. 
However, the dropbox-nautilus-plugin 
(http://www.getdropbox.com/install?os=lnx) requires at least nautilus-2.16, 
GTK 2.12, GLib 2.14 and libnotify-0.4.4. Unfortunatelly, Debian Etch doesn't 
provide these. So I am trying to build them from sources (into /opt/dropbox, 
as I wish to use them only for that plugin to work) and have got all but 
nautilus.
What I got so far is: glib-2.18.2, pango-1.17.5, gtk+-2.12.12 and 
libnotify-0.4.4.
nautilus complains it needs at least eel-2.15.91. And here is my problem.
When I try to build it, I get the following error:

---snip---
./.libs/libeel-2.so: undefined reference to `g_dgettext'
/opt/dropbox/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_once_init_leave'
/opt/dropbox/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_regex_unref'
/opt/dropbox/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to `g_regex_ref'
./.libs/libeel-2.so: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message_expr'
./.libs/libeel-2.so: undefined reference to `gtk_label_set_line_wrap_mode'
/opt/dropbox/lib/libgobject-2.0.so: undefined reference to 
`g_once_init_enter_impl'
./.libs/libeel-2.so: undefined reference to `g_assertion_message'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [check-program] Fehler 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/daten/Daten/Downloads/dropbox/eel-2.15.92/eel'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Fehler 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/daten/Daten/Downloads/dropbox/eel-2.15.92'
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
---snap---

Until now I tried 2.15.91, 2.15.92 and 2.16.3, all with the same result.

I post here, as there is no eel-mailinglist, and my final goal is to get 
nautilus to run.
Any suggestions what causes the error and how to get rid of it?
Or has anyone nautilus >=2.16 running on Etch?

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Andreas