diff -ruN gd-2.0.23/gdft.c gd-2.0.23-patched/gdft.c
--- gd-2.0.23/gdft.c	Tue Apr 20 09:13:18 2004
+++ gd-2.0.23-patched/gdft.c	Fri May 21 13:54:06 2004
@@ -1070,7 +1070,9 @@
 	}
 
 /* EAM DEBUG */
-#if (defined(FREETYPE_MAJOR) && (FREETYPE_MAJOR >=2 ) && (FREETYPE_MINOR >= 1))
+/* TBB: get this exactly right: 2.1.3 *or better*, all possible cases. */
+
+#if ((defined(FREETYPE_MAJOR)) && (((FREETYPE_MAJOR == 2) && (((FREETYPE_MINOR == 1) && (FREETYPE_PATCH >= 3)) || (FREETYPE_MINOR > 1))) || (FREETYPE_MAJOR > 2)))
       if (font->face->charmap->encoding == FT_ENCODING_MS_SYMBOL)
 	{
 	  /* I do not know the significance of the constant 0xf000. */