--- dia-0.97.3/configure.in
+++ dia-0.97.3/configure.in
@@ -62,43 +62,26 @@
 
 AC_ARG_WITH(freetype,
 [  --without-freetype        compile without FreeType support],,with_freetype=yes)
-if test "x$with_freetype" = "xyes"; then
-PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PANGOFT2,pangoft2,have_pangoft2=true,have_pangoft2=false)
-if test "$have_pangoft2" = "true"; then
-  dnl On Solaris with Forte C, at least, need to link app/dia with -lfreetype.
-  dnl It's not enough that -lpangoft2 implicitly pulls it in.
-  have_freetype=false
-  AC_CHECK_LIB(freetype,FT_Init_FreeType,have_freetype=true,have_freetype=false,`freetype-config --libs`)
-  if test "$have_freetype" = "true"; then
-    dnl Need 2.0.9, as a bug was fixed for us there.
-    dnl However, freetype-config doesn't give a meaningful version, so we must
-    dnl do it like this.
-    AC_MSG_CHECKING([if FreeType version is 2.0.9 or higher])
-    old_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
-    CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS `freetype-config --cflags`"
-    AC_TRY_CPP([#include <ft2build.h>
-#include FT_FREETYPE_H
-#if (FREETYPE_MAJOR*1000+FREETYPE_MINOR)*1000+FREETYPE_PATCH < 2000009
-#error Freetype version too low.
-#endif
-],
-        [AC_MSG_RESULT(yes)
-	 FREETYPE_LIBS=`freetype-config --libs`
-	 AC_SUBST(FREETYPE_LIBS)
-	 FREETYPE_CFLAGS=`freetype-config --cflags`
-	 AC_SUBST(FREETYPE_CFLAGS)
-	 GTK_MODULES="$GTK_MODULES pangoft2"
-	 AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FREETYPE,1,[Define if you have the FreeType2 library])]
-    ,
-	[AC_MSG_ERROR([Need FreeType library version 2.0.9 or higher])])
-    CPPFLAGS="$old_CPPFLAGS"
-  else
-    AC_MSG_ERROR(Can't find FreeType library)
-  fi
-else
-  AC_MSG_ERROR(Can't find PangoFT2 library)
-fi
-fi
+AS_IF([test "x$with_freetype" = "xyes"],[
+	dnl freetype2.pc uses the libtool specific version number and not the
+	dnl package version. See
+	dnl https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/docs/VERSIONS.TXT
+	dnl Let's raise minimum dependency to freetype-2.4.0 because that's the
+	dnl lowest freetype libtool version I could find.
+	dnl freetype-2.4.0 is from July 2010 and should be reasonably old
+	dnl enough.
+	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(FREETYPE, freetype2 >= 11.0.5,
+		[
+			CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS $FREETYPE_CFLAGS"
+			AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FREETYPE,1,[Define if you have the FreeType2 library])
+		],
+		AC_MSG_ERROR([Need FreeType library version 2.4.0 or higher])
+	)
+	PKG_CHECK_MODULES(PANGOFT2,pangoft2,
+		GTK_MODULES="$GTK_MODULES pangoft2",
+		AC_MSG_ERROR(Can't find PangoFT2 library)
+	)
+])
 AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_FREETYPE, test "x$with_freetype" != "xno")
 
 CFLAGS="$FREETYPE_CFLAGS $CFLAGS"