freetype-1.3 installs it's headers in ${prefix}/include/freetype by default.
Configure doesn't find them there.

The patch is against 3.0.13 but also
applies to 3.0.14.

php-4.0b3 seems to have the same problem.

--- php-3.0.13/configure.in.orig        Sat Jan  1 03:30:52 2000
+++ php-3.0.13/configure.in     Tue Jan  4 19:20:49 2000
@@ -890,23 +890,28 @@
   if test -n "$CHECK_TTF" ; then
     for i in /usr /usr/local "$CHECK_TTF" ; do
       if test -f "$i/include/truetype.h" ; then
-        FREETYPE_DIR="$i"
+        FREETYPE_INCDIR="$i/include"
+        FREETYPE_LIBDIR="$i/lib"
       fi
-      if test -f "$i/include/freetype.h" ; then
-        TTF_DIR="$i"
+      if test -f "$i/include/freetype/freetype.h" ; then
+        TTF_INCDIR="$i/include/freetype"
+        TTF_LIBDIR="$i/lib"
+      elif test -f "$i/include/freetype.h" ; then
+        TTF_INCDIR="$i/include"
+        TTF_LIBDIR="$i/lib"
       fi
     done

-    if test -n "$FREETYPE_DIR" ; then
+    if test -n "$FREETYPE_INCDIR" ; then
       AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBFREETYPE)
-      AC_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(freetype, $FREETYPE_DIR/lib)
-      AC_ADD_INCLUDE($FREETYPE_DIR/include)
+      AC_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(freetype, $FREETYPE_LIBDIR)
+      AC_ADD_INCLUDE($FREETYPE_INCDIR)
       AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
     else
-      if test -n "$TTF_DIR" ; then
+      if test -n "$TTF_INCDIR" ; then
         AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBTTF)
-        AC_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(ttf, $TTF_DIR/lib)
-        AC_ADD_INCLUDE($TTF_DIR/include)
+        AC_ADD_LIBRARY_WITH_PATH(ttf, $TTF_LIBDIR)
+        AC_ADD_INCLUDE($TTF_INCDIR)
         AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
       else
         AC_MSG_RESULT(no)