Build requirements: $ grep ^BuildReq poldek.spec
To build without libxml2, use --without-xml-metadata option as follows:

$ ./configure [--without-xml-metadata] && make 


or better build rpm package:

$ rpmbuild -tb poldek-${version}.tar.gz --define 'distro <distro>' \
  [--without xml_metadata]

Possible distro values: pld, rh, fedora and centos


