Which version of libxml2 are you installing? I had exactly the same problem with libxml2 ver2.4. Then I got ver 2.3.13 (actually, this one is suggested by KDE itself, if you read "configure" output carefully!), installed it - and everything went perfect. Roman > I'm trying to recompile kdelibs-2.2.1-14 (to enable xinerama, as previously > described on this list), but after quite a while of compiling, it dies with > the following error: