8fff967390b185e152a6faf2a7335e5db23a9ff7
braney
  Tue May 25 14:27:48 2021 -0700
use the freetype configuration utility to decide whether or not to use
it.

diff --git src/inc/common.mk src/inc/common.mk
index d19526f..5f7e7ca 100644
--- src/inc/common.mk
+++ src/inc/common.mk
@@ -16,33 +16,41 @@
 endif
 ifneq (,$(findstring -,$(MACHTYPE)))
 #    $(info MACHTYPE has - sign ${MACHTYPE})
     MACHTYPE:=$(shell uname -m)
 #    $(info MACHTYPE has - sign set to: ${MACHTYPE})
 endif
 
 HG_DEFS=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -DMACHTYPE_${MACHTYPE}
 HG_INC+=-I../inc -I../../inc -I../../../inc -I../../../../inc -I../../../../../inc -I$(kentSrc)/htslib
 
 # to check for Mac OSX Darwin specifics:
 UNAME_S := $(shell uname -s)
 # to check for builds on hgwdev
 HOSTNAME = $(shell uname -n)
 
+FREETYPECFLAGS = $(shell freetype-config --cflags  2> /dev/null)
+FREETYPELIBS =  $(shell freetype-config --libs 2> /dev/null )
+ifneq (${FREETYPECFLAGS},)
+FREETYPECFLAGS += -DUSE_FREETYPE
+endif
+
+HG_INC += ${FREETYPECFLAGS}
+L += ${FREETYPELIBS}
+
 ifeq (${HOSTNAME},hgwdev)
   IS_HGWDEV = yes
-  HG_INC+=-I/usr/include/freetype2 -DUSE_FREETYPE
 else
   IS_HGWDEV = no
 endif
 
 ifeq (${IS_HGWDEV},yes)
   FULLWARN = yes
 endif
 
 ifeq (${HOSTNAME},cirm-01)
   FULLWARN = yes
 endif
 
 ifeq (${PTHREADLIB},)
   PTHREADLIB=-lpthread
 endif