diff --git a/packages/x11/font/encodings/build b/packages/x11/font/encodings/build
index ce02987a1d..917223e719 100755
--- a/packages/x11/font/encodings/build
+++ b/packages/x11/font/encodings/build
@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ cd $PKG_BUILD
             --prefix=/usr \
             --sysconfdir=/etc \
             --localstatedir=/var \
-            --disable-gzip-small-encodings \
-            --disable-gzip-large-encodings \
-            --with-encodingsdir=$XORG_PATH_ENCODINGS
-$MAKE
+            --enable-gzip-small-encodings \
+            --enable-gzip-large-encodings \
+            --with-fontrootdir=/usr/share/fonts
+
+make
diff --git a/packages/x11/font/encodings/install b/packages/x11/font/encodings/install
index 93071b189b..03864e4682 100755
--- a/packages/x11/font/encodings/install
+++ b/packages/x11/font/encodings/install
@@ -22,8 +22,12 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_ENCODINGS
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/*.enc $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_ENCODINGS
+FONTDIR="$INSTALL/usr/share/fonts"
 
-mkdir -p $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_ENCODINGS/large
-  cp $PKG_BUILD/large/*.enc $INSTALL/$XORG_PATH_ENCODINGS/large
+mkdir -p $FONTDIR/encodings
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/*.enc.gz $FONTDIR/encodings
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/encodings.dir $FONTDIR/encodings
+
+mkdir -p $FONTDIR/encodings/large
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/large/*.enc.gz $FONTDIR/encodings/large
+  cp $PKG_BUILD/large/encodings.dir $FONTDIR/encodings/large
diff --git a/packages/x11/font/encodings/meta b/packages/x11/font/encodings/meta
index 02a3869541..d2fdb1c340 100644
--- a/packages/x11/font/encodings/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/font/encodings/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.X.org"
 PKG_URL="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/font/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros font-util-host"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="x11/font"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="encodings: X font encodings"