diff --git a/games/scorched3d/Makefile b/games/scorched3d/Makefile
index ff1e4b5a249d..ae3ae0abed2b 100644
--- a/games/scorched3d/Makefile
+++ b/games/scorched3d/Makefile
@@ -1,75 +1,77 @@
 # Created by: mdodd
 
 PORTNAME=	scorched3d
 PORTVERSION=	0.${SCORCH_VERSION}${SCORCH_REVISION}
 PORTREVISION=	13
 CATEGORIES=	games
 MASTER_SITES=	SF/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME}/Version%20${SCORCH_VERSION}
 DISTNAME=	Scorched3D-${SCORCH_VERSION}-src
 
 MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	3D version of the classic DOS game Scorched Earth
 
 LICENSE=	GPLv2
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libvorbis.so:audio/libvorbis \
 		libpng.so:graphics/png \
 		libfftw3.so:math/fftw3 \
 		libfftw3f.so:math/fftw3-float \
 		libexpat.so:textproc/expat2
 
 OPTIONS_DEFINE=	MYSQL
 
 WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/scorched
 
 USES=		autoreconf compiler:c++11-lang dos2unix gl gmake iconv jpeg \
 		openal:al,alut perl5 pkgconfig sdl
 USE_GL=		glew glu
 USE_SDL=	mixer net sdl
 USE_WX=		2.8
 WX_CONF_ARGS=	absolute
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--datadir=${DATADIR}
 
 DOS2UNIX_GLOB=	*.h *.cpp
 
 CPPFLAGS+=	-I${LOCALBASE}/include
 LDFLAGS+=	-L${LOCALBASE}/lib
 LDFLAGS_i386=	-Wl,-znotext
 
 SCORCH_VERSION=		43.3d
 SCORCH_REVISION=	# none
 
 MYSQL_USES=	mysql
 MYSQL_CONFIGURE_ON=	--with-mysql
 
 PLIST_FILES=	bin/scorched3d \
 		bin/scorched3dc \
 		bin/scorched3ds
 PORTDATA=	*
 
+BINARY_ALIAS=	freetype-config=true
+
 post-extract:
 	@${RM} ${WRKSRC}/src/client/GLEXT/[a-z]*
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		'/^CPPFLAGS=/s|^|#|g ; \
 		 /^LDFLAGS=/s|^|#|g ; \
 		 /if test/s|==|=|' ${WRKSRC}/configure.ac
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		'/GL_LIBS/s|"-lGL -lGLU"|"-lGL -lGLU -lGLEW"| ; \
 		 /if test/s|==|=|' ${WRKSRC}/*.m4
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		's|std::exit|exit|' ${WRKSRC}/src/common/common/main.h
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		's|"glew.h"|<GL/glew.h>|' ${WRKSRC}/src/client/GLEXT/GLState.h
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e \
 		'/GLEXT\\glew.c/d ; \
 		 /GLEXT\\glew.h/d ; \
 		 /GLEXT\\glxew.h/d ; \
 		 /GLEXT\\wglew.h/d' ${WRKSRC}/src/client/scorchedc/scorchedc.vcxproj
 
 pre-configure:
 	@cd ${WRKSRC}/scripts && ${PERL} createAMMakefile.pl
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/games/scorched3d/files/patch-acinclude.m4 b/games/scorched3d/files/patch-acinclude.m4
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f5a4e3a20f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/games/scorched3d/files/patch-acinclude.m4
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+--- acinclude.m4.orig	2021-08-06 14:48:14 UTC
++++ acinclude.m4
+@@ -437,13 +437,13 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_FT2],
+    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/'`