The configure.ac help in font-misc-ethiopic suggests that --with-otf-fontdir and --with-ttf-fontdir will be used instead of --with-fontdir, but the actual argument is actually just --with-fontdir for both.
Created attachment 4027 [details] [review] correct-otffontdir-and-ttffontdir.patch
applied, thanks!
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