mgp is not built with freetype support. Now that freetype
is in rawhide, presumably it should be. However rebuilding
it doesnt find freetype, due to bug in configure, patch is
something like below.

--- configure.orig      Thu Mar 18 16:27:14 1999
+++ configure   Thu Mar 18 16:27:37 1999
@@ -1020,7 +1020,7 @@
 if test "$mgp_use_freetype" = "yes"; then
        echo $ac_n "checking for freetype
library/header""... $ac_c" 1>&6
 echo "configure:1023: checking for freetype library/header"
>&5
-       for dir in /usr/local/freetype /usr/local; do
+       for dir in /usr/local/freetype /usr/local /usr; do
                ac_cv_ft_lib=no
                ac_cv_ft_include=no
                if test -d $dir/lib -a -f
$dir/lib/libttf.so; then