Hello, once again :)
 
So I'm trying to emerge kde.
Portage informed me that one of the dependencies for kde was xft2. 
Okay, so it's trying to emerge xft2, however when it builds xft2 I get the following error:
 
/usr/include/fontconfig.h:2760:stray '\2' in program
and it repeats many times with different numbers in place of \2
and ends with
/usr/include/fontconfig.h:2760:confused by earlier errors bailing out
 
So I tried what little delving I could, now unfortunately I'm at work right now and my computer isn't, and we don't have port forwarding set up on the firewall yet, so even if I had configured sshd I couldn't just log in and try (although it's on my plan to set that up tonight).  So I'm sorry if I can't provide tonnes of details or if some of my info may even be incorrect.
 
But I did some looking and I found that xft 2.0.1-r1 is masked, 2.0-r1 is unmasked.  My system should not be taking masked files (I haven't looked in make.defaults, but I never specified ~x86 in make.conf).  I think it's trying to install 2.0.1-r1, although I can't say for certain.
 
Any tips on what to try?  One suggestion I heard was to try ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p kde and see if there were other packages that kde or xft wanted that weren't included because they're masked.
 
Although I looked into the dependancies for xft and it's only x11-base/xfree and media-libs/fontconfig.  Although I didn't check if fontconfig is installed (but I would think it should be).
 
Any help would be great,
thanks.
-Patrick.

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