[Scribus] compile error

[Martin Grohman]

I get this error when I configured Scribus 1.5:

checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for freetype-config... /usr/bin/freetype-config
checking for FT_Get_First_Char in -lfreetype... no
checking for FT_Get_Next_Char in -lfreetype... no
configure: error: You need at least freetype 2.1.0
bash-2.05b$ ./configure --help

... but I am sure that I have freetype 2.1.7 (from Dropline Gnome). Is
there something what can I do to solve it?

Martin Grohman