From 17d56279f5640d4c505cdd71da1da383c2be4524 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:28:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] CMake: Migrate FreeType package detection

---
 dtool/LocalSetup.cmake |  6 ------
 dtool/Package.cmake    | 14 +++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dtool/LocalSetup.cmake b/dtool/LocalSetup.cmake
index b9d331e92e..87d8739a15 100644
--- a/dtool/LocalSetup.cmake
+++ b/dtool/LocalSetup.cmake
@@ -207,12 +207,6 @@ else()
   message("- Did not find gtk+-2")
 endif()
 
-if(HAVE_FREETYPE)
-  message("+ Freetype")
-else()
-  message("- Did not find Freetype")
-endif()
-
 if(HAVE_WX)
   message("+ WxWidgets")
 else()
diff --git a/dtool/Package.cmake b/dtool/Package.cmake
index 26b2e8ac05..1684126405 100644
--- a/dtool/Package.cmake
+++ b/dtool/Package.cmake
@@ -205,10 +205,18 @@ package_option(OPENAL
   LICENSE "LGPL")
 config_package(OPENAL "OpenAL sound library")
 
-# Find and configure Freetype
+
+#
+# ------------ FreeType ------------
+#
+
 find_package(Freetype QUIET)
-#config_package(FREETYPE "Freetype")
-package_option(FREETYPE)
+
+package_option(FREETYPE
+  "This enables support for the FreeType font-rendering library. If disabled,
+  Panda3D will only be able to read fonts specially made with egg-mkfont.")
+
+config_package(FREETYPE "FreeType")
 
 # Find and configure GTK
 set(Freetype_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE) # Fix for builtin FindGTK2