--- auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild	18 Jul 2011 00:45:44 -0000	1.7
+++ auctex-11.86-r1.ebuild	7 Aug 2011 07:18:54 -0000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ 
 }
 
 src_compile() {
+	export VARTEXFONTS="${T}"/fonts
 	emake || die "emake failed"
 	cd doc; emake tex-ref.pdf || die "creation of tex-ref.pdf failed"
 }