diff --git a/media-gfx/graphviz/graphviz-2.26.3.recipe b/media-gfx/graphviz/graphviz-2.26.3.recipe
index e01668dae..60915fb14 100644
--- a/media-gfx/graphviz/graphviz-2.26.3.recipe
+++ b/media-gfx/graphviz/graphviz-2.26.3.recipe
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ BUILD()
 	libtoolize -fci
 	autoconf
 	runConfigure ./configure \
+		CPPFLAGS=`pkg-config --cflags freetype2` \
+		LDFLAGS=`pkg-config --libs freetype2` \
 		--enable-shared \
 		--disable-perl