Xfce4-terminal : crash

[purslow at sympatico.ca]

i just downloaded  xfce4-terminal-4.1.0 , configured, made & installed.
on trying to start it, i got :

  purslow: purslow> xfce4-terminal
    Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 43: missing family in alias
    Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 59: missing family in alias
    Fontconfig error: "local.conf", line 71: missing family in alias

    ** ERROR **: file main.c: line 116 (create_terminal): should not be reached
    aborting...
    Aborted

NB the fontconfig errors happen regularly, eg whenever i start Gvim,
so they probably cb ignored, but i don't understand the error.
this is on Xfce 4.2 & Gentoo; i started it from Konsole.

HTH

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