pkg/45375: Pengo font shaping failure

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>Number:         45375
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       Pengo font shaping failure
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Sep 18 08:45:00 +0000 2011
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.55
>Organization:
The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD night-owl.duskware.de 5.99.55 NetBSD 5.99.55 (NIGHT-OWL) #45: 
Sun Sep 4 10:32:07 CEST 2011 
martin%night-owl.duskware.de@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/NIGHT-OWL
 amd64
Architecture: x86_64
Machine: amd64
>Description:

Trying to use abiword on any ascii text file causes this error message:

(abiword:8061): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. 
shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 11', text=''

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to use abiword on -current, with pkgsrc current

>Fix:
any hints welcome, might be a local setup problem?