incorporating Xft instead of cairo, cairo provides far too many options

config.mk

@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ XINERAMALIBS  = -lXinerama
 XINERAMAFLAGS = -DXINERAMA
 
 # includes and libs
-INCS = -I${X11INC}
-LIBS = -L${X11LIB} -lX11 ${XINERAMALIBS}
+INCS = -I${X11INC} -I/usr/include/freetype2
+LIBS = -L${X11LIB} -lX11 ${XINERAMALIBS} -lutil -lXext -lXft -lfontconfig
 
 # flags
 CPPFLAGS = -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=2 -DVERSION=\"${VERSION}\" ${XINERAMAFLAGS}