I am fine with the way it is now, however we can improve. Thanks very much for your time on this!

I see what is happening! I am using a shared build system. The option of PNG is being added to the options for building of print/freetype. Thanks for all of your help. I'll send the patch through, as is, and bump to 5.59.

I'm using a nearly identical patch to the one you submitted... and same issue.

In D21556#478351, @jrm wrote:

print/freetype2 does not have a hard dependency on graphics/png unless you turn on the non-default PNG knob.

In D21556#478348, @jrm wrote:

Those are not identical builds to the patch that I submitted, are they? I see the version is 5.59, so I can't really say.

After building, I am getting the same error. Any ideas?