*** needs utf-8 locale set ***

tce-load -i compiletc meson gtk3-dev gtk3-gir gtk4-dev gtk4-gir gobject-introspection-dev vala-dev icu74-dev gnutls38-dev

wget https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/archive/0.74.2/vte-0.74.2.tar.gz

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

cd vte-0.74.2

mkdir build
cd build

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

[-fno-exceptions fails]

ninja [1m 16.45s]
sudo ninja install

Configuration for VTE:

  Version:      0.74.2

  C compiler:   gcc (version 13.2.0)
  C++ compiler: gcc (version 13.2.0)

  Coverage:     false
  Debug:        false

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

  Prefix:       /usr/local

Message: This is a stable release.
Build targets in project: 145

vte 0.74.2

  User defined options
    buildtype    : plain
    libexecdir   : /usr/local/lib/vte-2.91
    localstatedir: /var
    prefix       : /usr/local
    _systemd     : false