diff --git a/games/gemrb/files/patch-gemrb_plugins_TTFImporter_CMakeLists.txt b/games/gemrb/files/patch-gemrb_plugins_TTFImporter_CMakeLists.txt
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+++ b/games/gemrb/files/patch-gemrb_plugins_TTFImporter_CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+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
+
+--- gemrb/plugins/TTFImporter/CMakeLists.txt.orig	2022-08-29 19:10:39 UTC
++++ gemrb/plugins/TTFImporter/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
+-IF (FREETYPE_LIBRARY)
++IF (FREETYPE_LIBRARIES)
+ 	INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES( ${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+ 	INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${Iconv_INCLUDE_DIR})
+ 
+ 	ADD_GEMRB_PLUGIN (TTFImporter TTFFontManager.cpp TTFFont.cpp Freetype.cpp)
+-	TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( TTFImporter ${FREETYPE_LIBRARY} )
++	TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(TTFImporter ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES})
+ 	TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(TTFImporter ${Iconv_LIBRARY} ${CHARSET_LIBRARY})
+-ENDIF (FREETYPE_LIBRARY)
++ENDIF (FREETYPE_LIBRARIES)