Ubuntu freetype link problem PDFKit

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi All,

I have trouble using the new release of PDFKit (do not remember the 
old one) on Ubuntu.
The linking flags for freetype are now "queried" this way and this is 
clean:
LIB_FREETYPE_LDFLAGS := $(shell freetype-config --libs)

It works on BSDs, other Linux distributions, all is fine. On OpenBSD I 
need a special hack, I need to -r in the library path this way:
ifeq ($(findstring openbsd, $(GNUSTEP_TARGET_OS)), openbsd)
LIB_FREETYPE_LDFLAGS  += -Wl,-rpath=/usr/X11R6/lib
endif

I personally think this is a "bug" in OpenBSD's freetype/config.

On Ubuntu I have a also a similar issue: PDFKit compiles fine, but 
then it fails to resolve symbols.
The actual library is located in:

/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so

However:
$ freetype-config --libs
-lfreetype

I wonder i there is a bug, like a missing symlink in Ubuntu? or a bug 
in freetype-config?

I don't have clean workaround like in OpenBSD: I do not know how to 
guess the actual directory (architecture dependent) and also how  to 
detect I am running on Linux, Isince the TARGET_OS is linux and on 
other linux systems it works fine.

Any opinions? Any ubuntu experts?

Riccardo