I tested on Debian Jessie with libvte 2.91, and my build works fine.
My environment is as below.
$ uname -a
Linux tp 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4 (2016-02-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ dpkg -l | grep libvte
ii libvte-2.91-0 0.38.1-2 amd64 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 - runtime files
ii libvte-2.91-common 0.38.1-2 all Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 - common files
ii libvte-2.91-dev 0.38.1-2 amd64 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 - development files
ii libvte-2.91-doc 0.38.1-2 all Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 3.0 - documentation
I tested on Debian Jessie with libvte 2.91, and my build works fine. My environment is as below.