I just built ImageMagick 7.0.10 from the latest upstream git source without any issues.
I also don't have freetype's .la file on my system, but as I said, it's not needed.
I'm building on Debian Sid, so there's a slight difference in packages. I'll spin up a Ubuntu 20.04 VM and try building again to make sure this isn't the difference.
I just built ImageMagick 7.0.10 from the latest upstream git source without any issues.
I also don't have freetype's .la file on my system, but as I said, it's not needed.
I'm building on Debian Sid, so there's a slight difference in packages. I'll spin up a Ubuntu 20.04 VM and try building again to make sure this isn't the difference.
Are you sure the issue isn't with php-imagick?