diff --git a/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/patches/freetype-pkg_config.patch b/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/patches/freetype-pkg_config.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0f01eeee179
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/patches/freetype-pkg_config.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+--- configure.ac	2016-12-31 00:25:38.000000000 +0100
++++ configure.ac	2020-09-20 00:16:14.950903683 +0200
+@@ -84,10 +84,8 @@
+ AC_SUBST(FRIBIDI_CFLAGS)
+ AC_SUBST(FRIBIDI_LIBS)
+ 
+-AC_CHECK_PROGS(FREETYPECONFIG, [freetype-config])
+-if test -n "$FREETYPECONFIG"; then
+-    FREETYPE_CPPFLAGS="`$FREETYPECONFIG --cflags`"
+-    FREETYPE_LIBS="`$FREETYPECONFIG --libs $config_static`"
++PKG_CHECK_MODULES(FREETYPE, [freetype2],[
++    FREETYPE_CPPFLAGS="$FREETYPE_CFLAGS"
+     AC_DEFINE(HAVE_FREETYPE, 1, [Whether FreeType is available])
+ 
+     ac_save_CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
+@@ -96,9 +94,9 @@
+     CPPFLAGS="$ac_save_CPPFLAGS"
+     AC_SUBST(FREETYPE_CPPFLAGS)
+     AC_SUBST(FREETYPE_LIBS)
+-else
++        ],
+     AC_MSG_ERROR([freetype not found])
+-fi
++)
+ 
+ 
+ AC_ARG_ENABLE([default-video-format],
diff --git a/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/template b/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/template
index b59a635de04..c4a81cd4aaf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dvdauthor/template
@@ -4,8 +4,10 @@ version=0.7.2
 revision=4
 wrksrc="${pkgname}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config"
-makedepends="libpng-devel freetype-devel fribidi-devel libxml2-devel libdvdnav-devel"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool gettext gettext-devel
+ libxml2-devel pkg-config"
+makedepends="gettext-devel libpng-devel freetype-devel fribidi-devel
+ libxml2-devel libdvdnav-devel"
 short_desc="DVD authoring tools, generate a DVD movie from MPEG2 stream"
 maintainer="Dan Kociela <dkociela@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
@@ -22,3 +24,7 @@ vopt_conflict NTSC PAL
 configure_args="--enable-localize-filenames \
 	$(vopt_if NTSC '--enable-default-video-format=NTSC' "" ) \
 	$(vopt_if PAL '--enable-default-video-format=PAL' "")"
+
+pre_configure() {
+	NOCONFIGURE=1 autoreconf -fi
+}