diff -Nru libxml2-2.7.8.orig//configure.in libxml2-2.7.8/configure.in
--- libxml2-2.7.8.orig//configure.in	2010-11-04 18:01:19.000000000 +0100
+++ libxml2-2.7.8/configure.in	2011-02-11 21:19:21.708818426 +0100
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
   esac
 fi
 AC_SUBST(VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS)
-AM_CONDITIONAL([USE_VERSION_SCRIPT], [test -z "$VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS"])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([USE_VERSION_SCRIPT], [test -n "$VERSION_SCRIPT_FLAGS"])
 
 dnl
 dnl We process the AC_ARG_WITH first so that later we can modify