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xorg-server-21.1.3 does not display fonts correctly as compared to 1.20.11

I'm trying to update from xorg-server-1.20.11 to xorg-server-21.1.3, but the fonts do not display correctly.

At first xorg-server-21.1.3 will not start:

[   264.459] (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts").
[   264.459] 	Entry deleted from font path.
[   264.459] 	(Run 'mkfontdir' on "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts").
[   264.459] (==) FontPath set to:

Note that the fonts are a loop mounted squashfs package symlinked to the root fs and the fonts.dir files are one level down in 75dpi, TTF, Type1, misc, etc, which xorg-server-1.20.11 has no problem with.

Anyway, after "sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts", which creates fonts.dir containing "0", xorg-server-21.1.3 starts with:

$ sudo mkfontdir /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts
[  4113.857] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts

..but fonts do not display correctly - is it possible that xorg-server-21.1.3 does not follow symlinks?

Note that with xorg-server-1.20.11:

[    94.062] (==) FontPath set to:
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,
	/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/
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