diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/patch-xmlIO.c.patch b/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/patch-xmlIO.c.patch
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6f765aefc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2/patches/patch-xmlIO.c.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+--- ./xmlIO.c.orig	2009-09-24 08:32:00.000000000 -0700
++++ ./xmlIO.c	2010-03-17 12:35:00.957293884 -0700
+@@ -2518,6 +2518,9 @@
+ #ifdef HAVE_ZLIB_H
+ 	if ((xmlInputCallbackTable[i].opencallback == xmlGzfileOpen) &&
+ 		(strcmp(URI, "-") != 0)) {
++#if defined(ZLIB_VERNUM) && ZLIB_VERNUM >= 0x1230
++	    ret->compressed = !gzdirect(context);
++#else
+ 	    if (((z_stream *)context)->avail_in > 4) {
+ 	        char *cptr, buff4[4];
+ 		cptr = (char *) ((z_stream *)context)->next_in;
+@@ -2529,6 +2532,7 @@
+ 		    gzrewind(context);
+ 		}
+ 	    }
++#endif
+ 	}
+ #endif
+     }
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
index 9c3b6aebad..9d086e5486 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libxml2/template
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Template build file for 'libxml2'.
 pkgname=libxml2
 version=2.7.6
+revision=1
 distfiles="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 build_style=gnu_configure
 short_desc="Library providing XML and HTML support"
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ long_desc="
  URI library."
 
 subpackages="$pkgname-devel $pkgname-python"
-Add_dependency full glibc
-Add_dependency full zlib
+Add_dependency run glibc
+Add_dependency run zlib
+Add_dependency build zlib-devel
 Add_dependency build python