I'm past the freetype/Xrender stuff, they seem to be fine...I've
extracted Xft and Xrender from the XFree86 v4.4 source tree and gotten
them compiled and installed. I had to do a bit of hacking on some of
the pkg-config data files also. I've also (just a moment ago) gotten
past the slightly broken Xlibint.h header file, and now the GTK+ build
is bombing with a libtool issue. I'm tracking that down now.
Ok, good. For people that doesn't want to jump quite that high Keith
Packard (I think) packaged the bits you need so you don't need to
extract them from XFree86 manually. Here's a pointer:
http://pdx.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/releases/