lilypond does not compile: fontforge version not detected

[Miroslav Šulc]

i attempted to install lilypond-9999 gentoo ebuild but it fails because it 
does not detect fontforge version correctly:

# ./configure
...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating config.make
config.status: creating config.hh
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --with-ncsb-dir

WARNING: Please consider installing optional programs or files:  dblatex 
pdflatex epsf.tex lh CTAN package (texlive-lang-cyrillic or texlive-texmf-
fonts)

ERROR: Please install required programs:  /usr/bin/fontforge >= 20110222 
(installed: 99da6faa1ea3b4f80ecd333f596ea7dab205325)

See INSTALL.txt for more information on how to build LilyPond
...

here is the output of fontforge:

# fontforge --version
Copyright (c) 2000-2014 by George Williams. See AUTHORS for Contributors.
 License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later 
<http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
 with many parts BSD <http://fontforge.org/license.html>. Please read 
LICENSE.
 Based on sources from 10:14 CEST 19-Aug-2015-ML-D.
 Based on source from git with hash: 
99da6faa1ea3b4f80ecd333f596ea7dab205325e
no xdefs_filename!
TESTING: getPixmapDir:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps
TESTING: getShareDir:/usr/share/fontforge
TESTING: GResourceProgramDir:/usr/bin
trying default theme:/usr/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
fontforge 10:14 CEST 19-Aug-2015
libfontforge 20150819


it apparently catches git hash instead of the date version.