configure error with freetype (again)

[Alan Bateman]

Lana sync'ed up jdk8/tl to jdk8-b113 yesterday and we seen to have 
picked up a build change related to freetype.

On Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit I'm now seeing this when running configure:

:
checking for FREETYPE... yes
checking for freetype... yes (using pkg-config)
checking if we can compile and link with freetype... no
configure: Could not compile and link with freetype. This might be a 
32/64-bit mismatch.
configure: Using FREETYPE_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/freetype2   and 
FREETYPE_LIBS=-lfreetype
configure: error: Can not continue without freetype. You might be able 
to fix this by running 'sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-dev'.
configure exiting with result code 1

The suggestion is to install libfreetype6-dev but dpkg says it is 
installed already:

ii  libfreetype6-dev                       
2.4.8-1ubuntu2.1                        FreeType 2 font engine, 
development files

Are there additional packages that are now needed? (it would be nice to 
not have to specify --with-freetype).

-Alan.