can not compile pidgin-2.1.0

[Sadrul Habib Chowdhury]

* Gabriel Schulhof had this to say on [31 Jul 2007, 16:20:36 +0300]:
> Hi!
> 
> On Tue, July 31, 2007 15:04, liu shukui wrote:
> > gnttree.c:987: error: 'G_PARAM_STATIC_NAME' undeclared (first use in this
> > function)
> > gnttree.c:987: error: 'G_PARAM_STATIC_NICK' undeclared (first use in this
> > function)
> > gnttree.c:988: error: 'G_PARAM_STATIC_BLURB' undeclared (first use in this
> > function)
> 
> [1] says that these exist "since 2.8" ...
> 
> [1]
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gobject/gobject-GParamSpec.html#G-PARAM-STATIC-NAME:CAPS
> 

My Bad :(

Anyone can give me a quick howto on setting up stuff so I can
test-compile things with different versions of different libraries
before I break everything else? (I would prefer if I can avoid
installing some virtual machine (eg. VMWare etc.))

Thanks,
Sadrul