2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base.inc b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base.inc
index 5d18752f8a..e04096c0e8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require gstreamer1.0-plugins.inc
 
 LICENSE = "GPLv2+ & LGPLv2+"
 
-DEPENDS += "freetype iso-codes util-linux zlib"
+DEPENDS += "iso-codes util-linux zlib"
 
 inherit gettext
 
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ PACKAGECONFIG[x11]          = "${X11ENABLEOPTS},${X11DISABLEOPTS},${X11DEPENDS}"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF += " \
     --enable-zlib \
-    --disable-freetypetest \
 "
 
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS_append_x86 = " ac_cv_header_emmintrin_h=no ac_cv_header_xmmintrin_h=no"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.6.3.bb b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.6.3.bb
index b9ed3f41be..429dc9338f 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.6.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-multimedia/gstreamer/gstreamer1.0-plugins-base_1.6.3.bb
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=c54ce9345727175ff66d17b67ff51f58 \
                     file://COPYING.LIB;md5=6762ed442b3822387a51c92d928ead0d \
                     file://common/coverage/coverage-report.pl;beginline=2;endline=17;md5=a4e1830fce078028c8f0974161272607"
 
+# Note: The dependency on freetype was dropped shortly after the 1.7.1 release
+# so these lines should be removed during the update to 1.8.x
+# http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-base/commit/?id=183610c035dd6955c9b3540b940aec50474af031
+DEPENDS += "freetype"
+EXTRA_OECONF += "--disable-freetypetest"
+
 SRC_URI = " \
     http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-base/gst-plugins-base-${PV}.tar.xz \
     file://get-caps-from-src-pad-when-query-caps.patch \