tce-load -i compiletc meson gtk3-dev gtk3-gir gobject-introspection-dev pcre2-dev icu65-dev vala-dev bash

https://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/0.60/vte-0.60.0.tar.xz

[no dep on ncurses, but uses xterm-256color runtime,cf VTE_DEFAULT_TERM=xterm-256color]

cd vte-0.60.0

mkdir build
cd build

CC="gcc -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -mtune=generic -Os -pipe" CXX="g++ -flto -fuse-linker-plugin -mtune=generic -Os -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti" meson --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=/usr/local/lib/vte-2.91 --buildtype=plain -D_systemd=false

ninja [0m 28.94s]
sudo ninja install

Configuration for VTE:

  Version:      0.60.0

  C compiler:   gcc (version 9.2.0)
  C++ compiler: gcc (version 9.2.0)

  Coverage:     false
  Debug:        false

  A11y:         true
  Docs:         false
  FRIBIDI:      true
  GNUTLS:       true
  GTK+ 3.0:     true
  GTK+ 4.0:     false
  ICU:          true
  GIR:          true
  systemd:      false
  Vala:         true

  Prefix:       /usr/local