Openbox & Xft on redhat 8

[Forrest English <forrest truffula net>]

I'm trying to use openbox on redhat 8, I've installed the Xft and
Xft-devel packages (version 2.0-1), and I have installed the MS core fonts
which are available to me in OpenOffice and other apps.   When I configure
openbox I get:

checking whether to build support for the Xft extension... version 2
checking for XftFontOpenXlfd in -lXft... no

in the config.log i find:

XFT2_FALSE='#'
XFT2_TRUE=''
XFT_FALSE=''
XFT_TRUE='#'

Openbox does build fine, but of course is lacking support to use Xft, and
of course missing the whole reason I'd use openbox over blackbox.

Does anyone know what I could be missing? (or is anyone using openbox, and
know for sure what i'm doing wrong?)

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