diff --git a/games/minetest/files/patch-src_CMakeLists.txt b/games/minetest/files/patch-src_CMakeLists.txt
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+++ b/games/minetest/files/patch-src_CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Fix build with CMake >= 3.28.0. FREETYPE_LIBRARY has not officially been
+part of the user-facing interface of the FindFreetype module since CMake
+2.6.0 [1] and has only been coincidentally defined up until this point.
+
+[1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/commit/d18fb61c76c720ec5b1ac2cc4f30a5beaf071c33
+
+--- src/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2023-04-08 16:04:52 UTC
++++ src/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ if(BUILD_CLIENT)
+ 		${GMP_LIBRARY}
+ 		${JSON_LIBRARY}
+ 		${LUA_BIT_LIBRARY}
+-		${FREETYPE_LIBRARY}
++		${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES}
+ 		${PLATFORM_LIBS}
+ 	)
+ 	if(NOT USE_LUAJIT)