[Slackbuilds-users] Texlive-2017 not finding installed freetype

[Rich Shepard]

   Trying to upgrade texlive from 2016 to 2017 I've run into a freetype
issue.

   The build script reports:

checking requested system `freetype2' library... failed

and the build script specifies:

    --with-system-freetype2 \

   Installed is freetype-2.6.3-i586-2_slack14.2 found as freetype, not
freetype2.

   Please advise me how to fix this issue.

TIA,

Rich