Hi, I'm attaching the patch that I used to fix the issue on powerpcspe. Applies to the other arches as well.
Roland
Index: vtk-5.8.0/CMake/FindFREETYPE.cmake =================================================================== --- vtk-5.8.0.orig/CMake/FindFREETYPE.cmake 2013-12-23 11:38:25.000000000 +0100 +++ vtk-5.8.0/CMake/FindFREETYPE.cmake 2013-12-23 12:27:47.208086774 +0100 @@ -10,9 +10,11 @@ # also defined, but not for general use are # FREETYPE_LIBRARY, where to find the FREETYPE library. -FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_FT2BUILD ft2build.h) +FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_FT2BUILD ft2build.h + /usr/include/freetype2 +) -FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_FTHEADER freetype/config/ftheader.h +FIND_PATH(FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIR_FTHEADER config/ftheader.h /usr/include/freetype2 /usr/local/include/freetype2 )