I've stuck packages for people not using current XFree86 CVS versions of Xft and the Xrender libraries at http://fontconfig.org/release You'll need: render-0.8.tar.gz Render extension headers and docs xrender-0.8.tar.gz Xrender library xft-2.1.1.tar.gz Xft library Those should suffice for building on any X bits. Bugs with these libraries may be logged in the fontconfig.org bugzilla database. -keith