diff --git a/x11-apps/mkfontscale/Manifest b/x11-apps/mkfontscale/Manifest
index 6fe4838f09097..eaf6b7cbdb66b 100644
--- a/x11-apps/mkfontscale/Manifest
+++ b/x11-apps/mkfontscale/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST mkfontscale-1.2.3.tar.xz 145584 BLAKE2B 93024a607ebe789682c00490528de1688d073f016b97f7c9fd86b225ee1ac96616c3666708b72e3984383f13f89025e12f591fada324b8a14e99764c5cdf33e9 SHA512 816e7b2885bb7a4b2eb0e506b659600011bfa4ec1a3010243c2cc2241fa0b792f3c8de1dec1855a4d13de89405973967074e379b0d01dcf9de8a1277a2fc4296
+DIST mkfontscale-1.2.4.tar.xz 152700 BLAKE2B 4df26037e6a855f61a4bd47bfdf3c455c5178f401218b6655b6771de6615ca91265b0204a04d1798f463fc1b66df122e0ca273088f9f9522ed87757cba6b3f59 SHA512 8f9396a3242a7940c626caaf7b4aa84a819e005d11d612ca979179e2f5ff19f745c053a1510fc2205b60df6c5fb371153f1e353ea75df29da66279e134874174
diff --git a/x11-apps/mkfontscale/mkfontscale-1.2.4.ebuild b/x11-apps/mkfontscale/mkfontscale-1.2.4.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fd8540eedd244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/x11-apps/mkfontscale/mkfontscale-1.2.4.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit xorg-meson
+
+DESCRIPTION="create an index of scalable font files for X"
+
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	x11-libs/libfontenc
+	media-libs/freetype:2
+	virtual/zlib:=
+	app-arch/bzip2"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	x11-base/xorg-proto"
+
+src_configure() {
+	local XORG_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS=(
+		-Dbzip2=true
+	)
+	xorg-meson_src_configure
+}