Openbox should really have pkg-config added as a dependency. Without it, at least on my system, it won't find the Xft libs and thus won't compile in Xft support. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Sorry, that was my fault. It was a dep of the eclass Openbox is based off of, but I was accidentally nullifying it in the ebuild. DOH! Thanks!