diff --git a/libs/libxml2/Makefile b/libs/libxml2/Makefile
index 1a7ed5d6a..f9dac3192 100644
--- a/libs/libxml2/Makefile
+++ b/libs/libxml2/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2006-2014 OpenWrt.org
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2015 OpenWrt.org
 #
 # This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
 # See /LICENSE for more information.
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 
 PKG_NAME:=libxml2
 PKG_VERSION:=2.9.2
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/languages/libxml/ \
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
 	--with-xinclude \
 	--with-xpath \
 	--with-xptr \
-	--with-zlib \
+	--with-zlib=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr \
 	--without-lzma
 
 define Build/InstallDev