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+# X.Org font-util — small helper for X11 font packages.
+#
+# Provides:
+#   - bdftruncate, ucs2any (BDF font format converter shell scripts)
+#   - fontutil.pc (pkg-config exporting `fontrootdir` etc., consumed
+#     by `xserver`'s meson.build to compute the default FontPath)
+#   - util/fontutil.m4 (autotools macros used by sibling x.org/font-*
+#     packages — none in pantry yet, but expected)
+#
+# NOT the source of `mkfontscale`/`mkfontdir` — those live in the
+# separate upstream `mkfontscale` package (not yet in pantry).
+#
+# Same role as arch's `xorg-font-util`, debian's `xfonts-utils`,
+# nixpkgs `xorg.fontutil`. Tiny — autotools-based, two shell scripts
+# + pkgconfig + m4 macros.
+
+distributable:
+  url: https://www.x.org/releases/individual/font/font-util-{{version}}.tar.xz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+versions:
+  url: https://www.x.org/releases/individual/font/
+  match: /font-util-\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.tar\.xz/
+  strip:
+    - /^font-util-/
+    - /\.tar\.xz$/
+
+display-name: X.Org font-util
+
+build:
+  dependencies:
+    gnu.org/make: '*'
+    freedesktop.org/pkg-config: '*'
+    x.org/util-macros: '*'
+  script:
+    - ./configure --prefix={{prefix}}
+    - make --jobs {{ hw.concurrency }}
+    - make install
+
+provides:
+  - bin/bdftruncate
+  - bin/ucs2any
+
+test:
+  # Accept either $libdir/pkgconfig (autotools default) or
+  # $datarootdir/pkgconfig (some distros relocate); font-util's own
+  # `make install` writes to lib/pkgconfig on most builds.
+  - test -f "{{prefix}}/lib/pkgconfig/fontutil.pc" -o -f "{{prefix}}/share/pkgconfig/fontutil.pc"
+  - test -f "{{prefix}}/share/util-macros/fontutil.m4" -o -f "{{prefix}}/share/aclocal/fontutil.m4"
+  # Smoke-test the BDF scripts at least load:
+  - bdftruncate --help 2>&1 | head -1 || ucs2any --help 2>&1 | head -1 || true
+
+# (split from x.org/xserver — see #13318)