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/
Oh wow, I wish I'd found that this morning. Thanks for the pointer!
The GTK+ compile is progressing. More later.
-Dave
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