Name libxml2
Version 2.15.3
Summary XML C Parser Library and Toolkit
Description The XML Parser Library allows for manipulation of XML files. Libxml2 exports Push and Pull type parser interfaces for both XML and HTML. It can do DTD validation at parse time, on a parsed document instance or with an arbitrary DTD. Libxml2 includes complete XPath, XPointer and Xinclude implementations. It also has a SAX like interface, which is designed to be compatible with Expat.
Section libs
License MIT
Homepage https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2
Bug tracker http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2
Recipe file recipes-core/libxml/libxml2_2.15.3.bb
Layer openembedded-core (rel-v2026.2 branch)
Inherits
  • autotools
  • binconfig-disabled
  • gcc
  • gcc-native
  • gnomebase
  • pkgconfig
  • ptest
  • siteinfo
Dependencies
  • autoconf-native
  • automake-native
  • gcc-cross-i686
  • libtool-cross
  • libtool-native
  • pkgconf-native
  • virtual/compilerlibs
  • virtual/libc
  • virtual/libiconv
  • zlib
PACKAGECONFIG options
  • vardepvalue

Sources

https://download.gnome.org/sources//libxml2/2.15/libxml2-2.15.3.tar.xz
http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20130923.tar

Patches

Patch Status
libxml2/install-tests.patch Inappropriate
libxml2/0001-Revert-cmake-Fix-installation-directories-in-libxml2.patch Inappropriate [upstream ticket https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/898#note_2452864]
libxml2/CVE-2026-11979.patch Backport [https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/c2e233fc1b341685fc99621b2768b503f777a72e]

Other branches

This recipe in other branches of openembedded-core:

Branch Recipe
rel-v2026.1 (AMD EDF 26.06 Release) libxml2 2.12.10
rel-v2026.2 (AMD EDF 26.11 Release) libxml2 2.15.3 (this recipe)