diff --git a/print/p5-Font-FreeType/Makefile b/print/p5-Font-FreeType/Makefile
index 355d62ba2a82..b22817171b96 100644
--- a/print/p5-Font-FreeType/Makefile
+++ b/print/p5-Font-FreeType/Makefile
@@ -1,23 +1,25 @@
 PORTNAME=	Font-FreeType
 PORTVERSION=	0.07
 CATEGORIES=	print perl5
 MASTER_SITES=	CPAN
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	p5-
 
 MAINTAINER=	kuriyama@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Perl extension to read font files and render glyphs using FreeType2
 
 LICENSE=	ARTPERL10
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	p5-Devel-CheckLib>=0:devel/p5-Devel-CheckLib \
 		p5-File-Which>=0:sysutils/p5-File-Which
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libfreetype.so:print/freetype2
 TEST_DEPENDS=	p5-Test-Warnings>=0:devel/p5-Test-Warnings
 
-USES=		perl5
+USES=		perl5 pkgconfig
 USE_PERL5=	configure
 
+BINARY_ALIAS=	freetype-config=true
+
 post-install:
 	${STRIP_CMD} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/${SITE_ARCH_REL}/auto/Font/FreeType/FreeType.so
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/print/p5-Font-FreeType/files/patch-Makefile.PL b/print/p5-Font-FreeType/files/patch-Makefile.PL
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8da51e775af9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/print/p5-Font-FreeType/files/patch-Makefile.PL
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+--- Makefile.PL.orig	2021-08-07 09:25:46 UTC
++++ Makefile.PL
+@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ my $config; # store various configurations to check
+ 
+ # use the pkg-config wrapper for FreeType
+ if( which('freetype-config') ) {
+-    chomp($config->{ft_config}{LIBS} = `freetype-config --libs`);
+-    chomp($config->{ft_config}{INC}  = `freetype-config --cflags`);
++    chomp($config->{ft_config}{LIBS} = `pkg-config freetype2 --libs`);
++    chomp($config->{ft_config}{INC}  = `pkg-config freetype2 --cflags`);
+ }
+ 
+ # default configuration