Build Error: pygame 1.9.6 for Python 3.8.2 on Linux

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Looking for help with this package that is failing to build in my project.

Runtime Details

Failing Packages

  • pygame 1.9.6

Reasons

  • Build failures: pygame
  • Test failures: pygame

Additional Logs

WARNING, No "Setup" File Exists, Running "buildconfig/config.py"
    Using UNIX configuration...

    /bin/sh: sdl-config: command not found
    /bin/sh: sdl-config: command not found
    /bin/sh: sdl-config: command not found
    Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'freetype2' found
    Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'freetype2' found
    Package freetype2 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
    Perhaps you should add the directory containing `freetype2.pc'
    to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
    No package 'freetype2' found
    /bin/sh: freetype-config: command not found
    /bin/sh: freetype-config: command not found
    /bin/sh: freetype-config: command not found

    Hunting dependencies...
    WARNING: "sdl-config" failed!
    WARNING: "pkg-config freetype2" failed!
    WARNING: "freetype-config" failed!
    Unable to run "sdl-config". Please make sure a development version of SDL is installed.
Cleaning up...
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Following up on this:
Adding freetype-py and pysdl2 to the project ALMOST gets this built but we unfortunately don’t have SDL system libs building on the platform yet and until that happens pysdl2 will fail.

That will get prioritized along with other issues. More interested in pysdl2 or pygame from the community may have some impact on it’s priority.