configure.ac contains: for file in /usr/src/unifont.bdf /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/unifont.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/unifont/unifont.pcf.gz; do if test -e $file ; then AC_SUBST([FONT_SOURCE], [$file]) break fi done Makefile.in contains: ifeq (, $(FONT_SOURCE)) else ifeq ($(enable_grub_mkfont),yes) pkgdata_DATA += unicode.pf2 ascii.pf2 ascii.h CLEANFILES += ascii.bitmaps etc. which means I won't have the .pf2 files if I don't have installed unifont.
added to the tree http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-boot/grub/grub-1.98.ebuild?r1=1.1&r2=1.2 http://sources.gentoo.org/sys-boot/grub/grub-9999.ebuild?r1=1.19&r2=1.20