[MacPorts] #41864: php52 @5.2.17_8+fastcgi: configure cannot find freetype.h

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#41864: php52 @5.2.17_8+fastcgi: configure cannot find freetype.h
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  Reporter:  macjoost@…  |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  defect      |     Status:  assigned
  Priority:  Normal      |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports       |    Version:  2.2.1
Resolution:              |   Keywords:
      Port:  php52       |
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Comment (by ryandesign@…):

 Sorry for the delay. The problem is not backporting the patch for this
 problem to php 5.2; I've done that already. The problem is that after
 patching the config.m4, the configure script needs to be regenerated. In
 fact the portfile is already trying to do this for other reasons (for
 example to fix the oracle variant) using use_autoconf, but it's apparently
 not working anymore. I've tried switching to use_autoreconf instead, and
 I've also tried switching from the old autoconf 2.13 that we're using
 (because that's the version the shipped configure script was generated
 with) to the newer autoconf 2.69, but both of them generate hundreds of
 error messages and don't produce a working configure script. I don't
 understand why.

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