When building GDA from sources you need to use --enable-gda-gi, --enable-vala and --enable-vala-extensions switches in order to get Vala Extensions compiled and be able to install.
Vala Extensions requires GObject Introspection and Vala compiler, versions >=1.3 and >=15.1 respectively, installed including its development files.
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