Building latest Vala releases (make check fails and valac can't find shared lib)

I have downloaded the last two latest releases of VALA (v0.17.0 and 0.16.0) and have attempted to build on my dev machine (Ubuntu 10.0.4 with gcc 4.4.3).

When I built v 0.17.0, I noticed that some errors flashed across the screen. I run make check and make test and both failed (cc error).

With v 0.17.0, when I run valac I got the following error:

valac: error while loading shared libraries: libvala-0.18.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Notice the different version number for the shared lib (is this a bug?). In any case I searched my entire system to see if the file had been created some where else on my system. The file was not found.

I then downloaded v 0.16.0 and built it. make check and make test also failed again. However this time when I launched the valac executable, I got this error:

valac: error while loading shared libraries: libvala-0.16.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Notice that the shlib low has the correct version number. I was hopeful, I then searched my machine for the shlib:

someone@yourbox:~/work/dev/c++/3rdparty/vala/vala-0.16.0$ find . -name 'libvala*' -type f 2>/dev/null./codegen/libvala-0.16.la./codegen/.libs/libvala-0.16.lai./codegen/.libs/libvala-0.16.so.0.0.0./libvala.pc./libvala.pc.in./vapi/libvala-0.16.vapi./ccode/libvalaccode.la./ccode/.libs/libvalaccode.a./libvala-0.16.pc./vala/.libs/libvalacore.a./vala/libvalacore.la

I was about to create a symlink to the shared library, and place it in the path so that valac could find it - until I realized that I shouldn't have to be doing that (make install should already have done that).

Which leads me to believe that both v 0.17.0 and 0.16.0 are broken - is anyone else aware of this - or am I missing something?

Has anyone managed to get any of the latest releases to build - and what do I need to fix the build? (failing that, what is the last know stable release for vala)?

[[Update]]

I have made the build log for 0.17.0 is available here

The output from make check (again foe v 0.17.0) is also available here