building seamonkey

[john q public]

I have built seamonkey 1-1-8 according to the svn book instructions for 
the other version but it
has problems with fonts. In particular #25bc shows up as a little box 
with the hex code in it at google so
I know its not good. I went web hunting and came up with the 
--enable-xft option. This ofcourse
breaks the build altogether. I got message about adding a option but of 
course it made no sense and
when I complied it broke again.