configure checks for freetype-config but then ignores it for #includes

asfont.c:67:33: fatal error: freetype/freetype.h: No such file or directory

 #  include <freetype/freetype.h>

                                 ^

$ freetype-config --cflags

-I/usr/include/freetype2

...

Checking for freetype-config ... 

Checking for libfreetype version >= 9.3.0

Result: ok

Checking whether to build included libfreetype6

Result: no

...