New issue 689 by sub...@gmail.com: not compiling in gentoo
http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/issues/detail?id=689

IMPORTANT: Before reporting an issue:

1. Make sure the issue has not been fixed in the
latest version:
http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/issues/list?q=label:Milest...
Release0.7.8

2. Make sure to include the version of Global Menu you are using
gnome-extra/gnome-globalmenu-9999

3. Make also sure to use an up-to-date VALA version if you are compiling
the source from GIT.
gamestation tests # eix vala
[I] dev-lang/vala
      Available versions:
        (0.10)  0.10.4-r1
        (0.12)  0.12.1
        (0.14)  0.14.1 ~0.14.2 0.14.2-r1
        (0.16)  0.16.0 0.16.1-r1
        {test +vapigen}
      Installed versions:  0.10.4-r1(0.10)(20:13:22 02/06/2012)(vapigen  
-test) 0.14.2-r1(0.14)(10:11:26 05/05/2012)(vapigen -test)  
0.16.1-r1(0.16)(23:44:25 29/07/2012)(vapigen -test)
      Homepage:            http://live.gnome.org/Vala
      Description:         Vala - Compiler for the GObject type system

Thank you very much!

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Do as described here to add an overlay:  
http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/InstallOnGentoo
2. emerge gnome-globalmenu

What is the expected output?
It should compile successfully