diff --git a/games/openmortal/Makefile b/games/openmortal/Makefile
index 8081762f52b6..a5db4d35feb6 100644
--- a/games/openmortal/Makefile
+++ b/games/openmortal/Makefile
@@ -1,22 +1,24 @@
 # Created by: krion@FreeBSD.org
 
 PORTNAME=	openmortal
 PORTVERSION=	0.7
 PORTREVISION=	13
 CATEGORIES=	games
 MASTER_SITES=	SF
 
 MAINTAINER=	amdmi3@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Parody of the once popular coin-up fighting game, Mortal Kombat
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfreetype.so:print/freetype2
 
-USES=		dos2unix perl5 sdl tar:bzip2
+USES=		dos2unix perl5 pkgconfig sdl tar:bzip2
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 USE_SDL=	mixer image sdl net
 DOS2UNIX_FILES=	src/gfx.cpp
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/${PORTNAME}
 PORTDATA=	*
 
+BINARY_ALIAS=	freetype-config=true
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/openmortal/files/patch-configure b/games/openmortal/files/patch-configure
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a7680ba7d5b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/openmortal/files/patch-configure
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- configure.orig	2021-08-06 13:30:20 UTC
++++ configure
+@@ -1685,13 +1685,13 @@ no_ft=""
+ if test "$FT2_CONFIG" = "no" ; then
+   no_ft=yes
+ else
+-  FT2_CFLAGS=`$FT2_CONFIG $ft_config_args --cflags`
+-  FT2_LIBS=`$FT2_CONFIG $ft_config_args --libs`
+-  ft_config_major_version=`$FT2_CONFIG $ft_config_args --version | \
++  FT2_CFLAGS=`pkg-config freetype2 --cflags`
++  FT2_LIBS=`pkg-config freetype2 --libs`
++  ft_config_major_version=`pkg-config freetype2 --modversion | \
+          sed 's/\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)/\1/'`
+-  ft_config_minor_version=`$FT2_CONFIG $ft_config_args --version | \
++  ft_config_minor_version=`pkg-config freetype2 --modversion | \
+          sed 's/\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)/\2/'`
+-  ft_config_micro_version=`$FT2_CONFIG $ft_config_args --version | \
++  ft_config_micro_version=`pkg-config freetype2 --modversion | \
+          sed 's/\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)/\3/'`
+   ft_min_major_version=`echo $min_ft_version | \
+          sed 's/\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\).\([0-9]*\)/\1/'`