--- /usr/portage/media-libs/gd/gd-2.0.35-r4.ebuild	2014-07-28 08:01:24.000000000 -0600
+++ gd-2.0.35-r4.ebuild	2014-08-03 17:42:06.561034837 -0600
@@ -51,6 +51,31 @@
 }
 
 multilib_src_configure() {
+	# setup a default FONT path that has a chance of existing using corefonts,
+	# as to make it more useful with e.g. gnuplot
+	local fontpath="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/fonts/corefonts"
+	# like with fontconfig, try to use fonts from the host OS, because that's
+	# beneficial for the user
+	use prefix && case ${CHOST} in
+		*-darwin*)
+			fontpath+=":/Library/Fonts:/System/Library/Fonts"
+		;;
+		*-solaris*)
+			[[ -d /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType ]] && \
+				fontpath+=":/usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
+			[[ -d /usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 ]] && \
+				fontpath+=":/usr/X/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
+			# OpenIndiana
+			[[ -d /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1 ]] && \
+				fontpath+=":/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
+		;;
+		*-linux-gnu)
+			[[ -d /usr/share/fonts/truetype ]] && \
+				fontpath+=":/usr/share/fonts/truetype"
+		;;
+	esac
+	append-cppflags "-DDEFAULT_FONTPATH=\\\"${fontpath}\\\""
+
 	export ac_cv_lib_z_deflate=$(usex zlib)
 	# we aren't actually {en,dis}abling X here ... the configure
 	# script uses it just to add explicit -I/-L paths which we