You can fix this in two ways:
1. use --enable-dbus-service - this happens to pull in glib; you'll
need that anyway if you want to synchronize TB directly with
SyncEvolution, the syncevo-http-server depends on it
2. apply the attached patch
Great! I used the first method and am able to compile fine. Many thanks.
I now have another question regarding phone templates that I'll branch
off into a new topic.