[Vala] vala on mac

[celil <celil kj gmail com>]

I just tried to unsuccessfully build the development version of Vala 
from the git repository on a Snow Leopard 10.6.4 machine.

Doing the usual steps

    git clone git://git.gnome.org/vala
    cd vala
    ./autogen.sh

results in an error

    checking for valac... /usr/local/bin/valac
    ./configure: line 11335: syntax error near unexpected token `GLIB,'
    ./configure: line 11335: `PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GLIB, glib-2.0 >= 
$GLIB_REQUIRED gobject-2.0 >= $GLIB_REQUIRED)'

Is anybody else developing on a Mac? Any ideas on how to fix this?

Also as an aside, I compiled an existing vala project of mine under the 
Mac using vala 0.9.2. The program worked fine under Linux, but under the 
Mac I am getting segmentation faults and attempts to free unassigned 
pointers. Is anybody testing vala under a Mac? How stable is it? Would 
it be suitable for production development?

I would like my library to be portable across platforms, so the 
stability on the Mac would play an important role on whether I would use 
vala or simply write it in plain C.

Thanks,
Celil