$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

dbus-1.2.1
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var --with-dbus-user=tc
$ make
$ sudo make install-strip

dbus-glib-0.76
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --sysconfdir=/etc localstatedir=/var
$ make
$ sudo make install-strip