diff --git a/games/freeminer/files/patch-src_cguittfont_CMakeLists.txt b/games/freeminer/files/patch-src_cguittfont_CMakeLists.txt
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+++ b/games/freeminer/files/patch-src_cguittfont_CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Fix build with CMake >= 3.28.0. FREETYPE_LIBRARY has not officially been
+part of the user-facing interface of the FindFreetype module since CMake
+2.6.0 [1] and has only been coincidentally defined up until this point.
+
+[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/commit/d18fb61c76c720ec5b1ac2cc4f30a5beaf071c33
+
+--- src/cguittfont/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2023-12-26 21:52:39 UTC
++++ src/cguittfont/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ target_link_libraries(
+ target_link_libraries(
+ 	cguittfont
+ 	${IRRLICHT_LIBRARY}
+-	${FREETYPE_LIBRARY}
++	${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES}
+ 	${ZLIB_LIBRARIES}  # needed by freetype, repeated here for safety
+ 	)