Problems building with non-system libxml2

[chrispbradley]

If you don't have libxml2 installed then the build system should build it. Trouble is it doesn't give the correct information about requiring zlib as well and so there are link errors.

[hsorby]

There is not enough information here to make any suggestions. All tested environments are currently having no issues with libxml2.

[chrispbradley]

Yes there is, this is the libxml2 zlib problem that you know about. It is just here as an official issue. If you delete the libxml2-dev system package then it will try to build libxml2 but run into problems because it does not pick up the zlib dependencies. Problems with module/config mode.