On Sep 13, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Leo wrote:

What did you do to get it to build with the system's libxml2? I am also
on 10.6.4. But there is not indication of whether libxml2 can be found
or not when running configure script.

set PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/lib/pkgconfig early.  

I just set mine to /usr/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig directly, but 
I'm not using fink or MacPorts or any other automatic package system,
and I don't have Gnome installed.

*Chad