YES! That worked!
I built without the -disable-gtkdoc-header flag and the compile still succeeded! I'm running version 1.29 right now but I'm getting spammed with a massive amount of these messages in the terminal:
(geany:23882): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_ref: assertion `closure->ref_count < CLOSURE_MAX_REF_COUNT' failed
(geany:23882): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_closure_invoke: assertion `closure->marshal || closure->meta_marshal' failed
I'm going to try the configure with -disable-gtkdoc-header to see if that helps....
Thanks a lot! I REALLY appreciate it!