u/Entire-Benefit-7183

Hello,
I am once again asking for help on this subreddit. Sorry to bother you all, but I really can't figure this one out!
I am attempting to build CDE on NetBSD/vax 11.0 . CDE seems to require fontconfig, and it obviously requires Motif. Motif in turn requires Xft2, which itself requires fontconfig. Building fontconfig is impossible due to the Python dependency.
I would be able to build Motif if I could convince pkgsrc to use the libXft included with the base system. For some reason, pkgsrc refuses. I have checked the version numbers; `2.3.8nb1` is required, and `make show-var VARNAME=BUILTIN_PKG.libXft` returns `2.3.9`. This should work, right? `2.3.9` is greater than `2.3.8nb1`!
I've tried all sorts of things to get it to work, mostly editing `mk.conf` over and over again. Here is my current version:
DEPENDS_TARGET=bin-install
UPDATE_TARGET=bin-install
X11_TYPE= native
PREFER_NATIVE= yes
USE_BUILTIN.fontconfig= yes
USE_BUILTIN.freetype2= yes
USE_BUILTIN.libXft= yes
PREFER_PKGSRC= no
IS_BUILTIN.libXft= yes
BUILTIN_PKG.libXft= libXft-2.3.9
USE_BUILTIN.libXft= yes
Thank you again for your help!