diff --git a/recipes/mkfontscale b/recipes/mkfontscale
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+++ b/recipes/mkfontscale
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+name=mkfontscale
+revision=1
+from_source=mkfontscale
+imagedeps="gcc"
+hostdeps="xgcc xbinutils pkgconfig"
+deps="mlibc freetype libfontenc"
+
+build() {
+	${source_dir}/configure --prefix=${prefix} --host=x86_64-astral
+	make -j${parallelism}
+}
+
+package() {
+	make install DESTDIR=${dest_dir}
+}
diff --git a/source-recipes/mkfontscale b/source-recipes/mkfontscale
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+name=mkfontscale
+version=1.2.3
+source_method=tarball
+tarball_url="https://www.x.org/pub/individual/app/mkfontscale-${version}.tar.xz"
+tarball_sha512="816e7b2885bb7a4b2eb0e506b659600011bfa4ec1a3010243c2cc2241fa0b792f3c8de1dec1855a4d13de89405973967074e379b0d01dcf9de8a1277a2fc4296"
+hostdeps="automake autoconf libtool pkgconfig util-macros"
+
+regenerate() {
+        autoreconf -fvi
+}